organize did not process the config file.

[kaiminator]

Hi,

i have an issue using organize. It did not process any config file i created,

steps to reproduce:

$ organize new test
Config "test.yaml" created at "C:\Users\user.HOMENET\AppData\Local\organize\organize\test.yaml"

organize.exe edit test

-- pasted the example config from README.md and saved file

**rules:

• name: "Find PDFs"
  locations:
  • ~/Downloads
    subfolders: true
    filters:
  • extension: pdf
    actions:
  • echo: "Found PDF!"**

Test is config file contains the example rule:

_$ cat C:\Users\user.HOMENET\AppData\Local\organize\organize\test.yaml
rules:

• name: "Find PDFs"
  locations:
  • ~/Downloads
    subfolders: true
    filters:
  • extension: pdf
    actions:
  • echo: "Found PDF!"_

Test syntax via organize

$ organize.exe check test
No problems found in "C:\Users\user.HOMENET\AppData\Local\organize\organize\test.yaml".

Let organize show the config file:

_$ organize.exe show test
organize configuration file
https://organize.readthedocs.io

rules:

• locations:
  filters:
  actions:
  • echo: "Hello, World!"_

There is a Problem. it does not shows any edited config in the config file

_$ organize.exe run test
Config: "C:\Users\user.HOMENET\AppData\Local\organize\organize\test1.yaml"

⚙ Rule #0 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
(echo) Hello, World!

success 1 / fail 0_

OS: Windows 11

$ organize.exe --version
organize v3.3.0 (installed via pip install -U organize-tool)

[stephen-hill]

Has anyone found a fix for this problem?

[stephen-hill]

It's as though the contents of the config file is being completely ignored.

If I change the contents to corrupted YAML, the output is the same.

[stephen-hill]

I'm trying to debug this, never done Python before.

The problem is somewhere inside config_path.read_text() because console.print(config_path) show the correct path, but console.print(config_path.read_text()) doesn't show the correct contents, it shows the default.

[stephen-hill]

console.print(f"absolute: {config_path.resolve()}")

outputs

C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.13_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\Local\organize\organize\downloads.yaml

[kaiminator]

Hi Stephen,

do you have any progress on this?

[stephen-hill]

@kaiminator No sorry. I'm not a Python developer, and suspect there is some werid interaction happening between Python, Windows, and virtual environments - it started getting out of my depth.

I'm happily using the software, now that I know where the real config files need to be.

But I'll leave it to real Python developers to fix the underlying issue.

[kaiminator]

thank you Stephen. i will also use the config path in the user appdata profile till there is a bug fix