Recursive Symlink Creator

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Tired of manually managing symlinks for your media server? This handy utility automates the creation of recursive mirror symlinks, making it a breeze to keep your media organized and accessible.

Why use this?:

• Effortless Symlink Creation: Create a perfect mirror of your source folder's structure in the destination media server watchdog folder, all with a single click.
• Media Server Optimization: Ideal for Jellyfin, Plex, or other media servers. Freely use tools like FileBot to rename "files" -> symlinks for easy identification without sacrificing torrent seeding capabilities.

Features:

✅ Folder Selection: Browse and select source and destination folders using intuitive file dialogs and demonstrating directories | files count.

✅ Recursive Symlink Creation: Creates symlinks for all files and subfolders within the source folder, mirroring the directory structure in the destination.

✅ Existing Symlink and Folder Handling: Detects and handles existing symlinks and folders at the destination, allowing for options like overwriting or skipping.

✅ User Feedback: Provides informative messages and error dialogs to keep the user informed about the process.

✅ Administrator Rights: Checks for administrator privileges and attempts to elevate if necessary, ensuring proper symlink creation permissions.

✅ Window Management: Centers the GUI window and makes it topmost to enhance user experience.

✅ Logging: Selfloging tree view of most importan program nodes.

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GUI:

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Run/Build Instructions:

first install requirements.txt with pip

> pip install -r requirements.txt

Next, you can run main.py

Or build the .exe file with the following command:

> pip install pyinstaller
> pyinstaller -F --onefile --noconsole ^
--clean --icon=".\icon.ico" ^
"main.py"

The executable will be created in dist directory

Or you can just download already built executable here

Technologies Used:

• Python
• customtkinter (for Modern GUI)
• tkinter (for file dialogs and basic GUI elements)
• ctypes (for administrator rights handling)
• shutil (for folder removal)

TODO:

• Refactor media info \ folder tree to be able to open in new windwos

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LICENSE

• GPLv3