download-monitor

Fixes the mess in your downloads folder.

Usage

1. Configure the ExecStart line of download-monitor.service according to the path of your download folder.

Mine is: ExecStart=/home/paolo/download-monitor/monitor.sh "/home/paolo/downloads"

2. Run the service under your control with systemctl --user start download-monitor.service

3. (Optional) Enable the service on user login with systemctl --user enable download-monitor.service

How it works

It monitors your downloads folder waiting for new files. When a new file is detected it analizes its type and it will move this one to the right folder.

If you want to personalize the subfolder you must add a prefix follwed by an underscore to the file name.

Eg:

Download the image: cat_funny.jpeg to your download folder.

The service will move the file to the folder download/image/cat/ renaming it to funny.jpeg, thus the new location is download/image/cat/funny.jpeg

If you don't add a prefix, the file will be moved to a misc subfolder.