🧹 Clean My Downloads

A Python script to automatically organize and clean your Downloads folder by:

• Sorting files into folders based on type (Images, Documents, Videos, etc.)
• Removing .exe files (optional cleanup of installers)
• Detecting and removing duplicate files by comparing their contents
• Logging every action for transparency

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📂 How It Works

This script scans your ~/Downloads folder and:

1. Deletes any .exe files to free up space
2. Sorts files into type-based folders in your home directory:
   • Images/
   • Documents/
   • Videos/
   • Music/
   • Archives/
   • Others/ (for uncategorized files)
3. Finds duplicate files (with identical content) and keeps only the latest version

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🚀 Features

• ✅ Automatically organizes by file type
• 🗑️ Deletes .exe files safely
• 🔍 Finds duplicates using full file comparison (filecmp)
• 🧠 Keeps your newest file version
• 📝 Logs actions with timestamps using Python's logging module

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📦 Requirements

• Python 3.6 or newer
• Works on macOS, Linux, and Windows
• No external libraries required (uses only the Python standard library)

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▶️ Usage

1. Clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/ApparentlyTejas/ProjectsInPython.git
cd ProjectsInPython
python cleanDownloader.py
🧠 Customization
You can change the behavior by editing the script:

File types → Modify the file_type_folders dictionary in main()

Number of duplicates → Currently deletes all but the newest

Safety → You could add a dry-run mode or confirmation prompts


## 🙋‍♂️ Author
Tejas Malhotra
Automation enthusiast.
Follow me or contribute at github.com/ApparentlyTejas