Question

If I run shutil.move(file, dest) on its own it works fine, the problem I’m having is when I loop through, the loop works fine without the shutil.move.

IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'test.txt'

path = '/media/usb/Test/'
dest = '/media/usb/Done/'

for file in os.listdir(path):
    fullpath = os.path.join(path, file)
    f = open( fullpath , 'r')
    dataname = f.name
    print dataname

    shutil.copy(file, dest)

I know that this is something simple and I’ve tried a number of different things but just can’t get my head around this.

Answer 1

You are giving shutil.copy the filename (file), and not the full path, so it can find the file.

Maybe you meant :

shutil.copy(fullpath, dest)