moving files to new folder in FTP using Python

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I am a bit lost. I’m trying to move a bunch of files to a new folder in FTP using python. I have tried a lot of function but what seems to work best is the ftp.rename function. In fact, it works to move only one file at a time to a new folder but it doesn’t work to do it for a lot of files (like in my screenshot) using a for loop.
Do you know another technique to move efficiently files in a new folder?
Please help

This is the code to move a single file :

ftp = ftplib.FTP(host, username, password)
ftp.encoding = "utf-8"

FtpImage = ftp.mkd("image")
ftp.rename("img1.png", "/image/img1.png")

ftp.quit()

This is the code to move a bunch of files at the same time :

ftp = ftplib.FTP(host, username, password)
ftp.encoding = "utf-8"
#creating a list with all my files
dirList = ftp.nlst()
#creating a folder
ftpFolder = ftp.mkd("folder1")
#moving my file using their name and adding the folder1 to their name 
for file in dirList:
    ftp.rename(file, "/folder1/" + file)
    # shutil.move(file, "/folder1/" + file )   
ftp.quit()

Error that I get when I run the second programm:

DeprecationWarning: The Tix Tk extension is unmaintained, and the tkinter.tix wrapper module is deprecated in favor of tkinter.ttk
  from tkinter.tix import IMAGETEXT
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "\wsl$Ubuntuhomeq******projet_pythonFTP-sortingtest.py", line 26, in <module>
    ftp.rename(file, "/folder1/")
  File "C:Program FilesWindowsAppsPythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.10_3.10.2288.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0libftplib.py", line 604, in rename  
    return self.voidcmd('RNTO ' + toname)
  File "C:Program FilesWindowsAppsPythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.10_3.10.2288.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0libftplib.py", line 286, in voidcmd 
    return self.voidresp()
  File "C:Program FilesWindowsAppsPythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.10_3.10.2288.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0libftplib.py", line 259, in voidresp
    resp = self.getresp()
  File "C:Program FilesWindowsAppsPythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.10_3.10.2288.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0libftplib.py", line 254, in getresp
    raise error_perm(resp)
ftplib.error_perm: 550 Rename /folder1/: Device or resource busy

Asked By: Quentin Gomez

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Answer 1

I was able to find a way to sort my different files :

I had first to sort my dirList (list with all the files) with new sub list (like allDivers) and then I used the following code

for file in allDivers:
    destination_folder = "/divers/"
    destination        = destination_folder + file
    ftp.rename(file, destination )

Answered By: Quentin Gomez

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