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I was running the code with echo on to try and see what was wrong and found it was adding a space instead of a 0 when it was midnight...also added a ping in to create a 2 second pause in case there was permission locking. cd "%1" set name="%3" set name=%name:"=% echo %DATE% ...

I was running the code with echo on to try and see what was wrong and found it was adding a space instead of a 0 when it was midnight...also added a ping in to create a 2 second pause in case there was permission locking. cd "%1" set name="%3" set name=%name:"=% echo %DATE% ...

Unfortunately it already is Shypike.....

Well....... I never quite got this to work, so I may as well bump it. It works on some folders, but not on others, and there doesn't seem to be any pattern as to why (ie similar non alpha-numeric characters) I'm thinking maybe windows may be locking the folder for thumbnail generation or something s...

Cheers again for the help. Ended up changing it a bit and taking your advice :) @echo off cd %1 set name=%3 set name=%name:"=% echo %DATE% %TIME% for /F "tokens=1-3 delims=/" %%a in ("%DATE%") do set DAY=%%a& set MTH=%%b& set YR=%%c for /F "tokens=1-3 delims=:.&...

A little code cleanup... @echo off cd %1 set name=%3 set name=%name:"=% echo %DATE% %TIME% for /F "tokens=1-3 delims=/" %%a in ("%DATE%") do set DAY=%%a& set MTH=%%b& set YR=%%c for /F "tokens=1-3 delims=:." %%a in ("%TIME%") do set HR=%%a& se...

All, Just a quick windows bat file for adding the date as "YYYY-MM-DD - " to the start of the extracted folder name; @echo off cd "%1" set name="%3" @For /F "tokens=1,2,3 delims=/ " %%A in ('Date /t') do @( Set Day=%%A Set Month=%%B Set Year=%%C Set All=%%C-%%...

Many thanks for that, I didn't think it was as simple as an MSDOS bat file! You set me on a path to remember my old programming days, so I had ago myself too......this was my attempt, both work well. @echo off cd "%1" set name="%3" @For /F "tokens=1,2,3 delims=/ " %%A i...

Yes, it would!

Im on Windows 7 x64

Hi all, I would like to run a simple scrip that renames the folder that's automatically extracted to have the date in front of it, ie, to go from 'blah blah extrated folder' ---> ''2012-03-31 - blah blah extrated folder' Using the date format of YYYY-MM-DD Could anyone help me on where to start?