Python – os.walk won't copy files from multiple folders

August 9, 2022

I have this script that hopefully moves all the files in multiple folders into a new folder. I used the os.walk and shtil.copy functions. However the script does not work.

Here is the script:

import os
import shutil


for root, dirs, filename in os.walk(r"C:\Users\edward\OneDrive\Suspensia Pictures"):
    MoveFrom = r"C:\Users\edward\OneDrive\Suspensia Pictures"
    MoveTo = r"C:\Users\edward\OneDrive\Pics"
    shutil.copy(os.path.join(MoveFrom, filename), os.path.join(MoveTo, filename))

Here is the error I get:

TypeError: join() argument must be str, bytes, or os.PathLike object, not 'list'

>Solution :

import os
import shutil
from pathlib import Path


for path, subdirs, files in os.walk(r"C:\Users\edward\OneDrive\Suspensia Pictures"):
    MoveFrom = r"C:\Users\edward\OneDrive\Suspensia Pictures"
    MoveTo = r"C:\Users\edward\OneDrive\Pics"

    for name in files:
        shutil.copy(os.path.join(path, name), Path(MoveTo))