I have a question for anyone who can answer it. I need to write a batch file for to automate some things for someone who is computer illiterate. The problem is that it needs to ask her up to 8 multi word descriptions, that will get passed to a seperate program. There may not always be 8 descriptions, but in every case thay will not be one word. I can write very simple batch files with a single variable, but this is way over my head. I'll show an example of what I'm trying to accomplish below. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
The directory structure involved.
c:\archives
c:\archives\1
c:\archives\2
c:\archives\3
c:\archives\4
c:\archives\5
c:\archives\6
c:\archives\7
c:\archives\8
c:\archives\backups
The user inputs *should* be something like this...
What's on the first disk?
What's on the second disk?
etc...
Sample answers might be like the following:
Nico's Pictures
Family Geneology Info
etc...
Basically, we have a bunch of DVD backups from my Mother's old unstable computer, but we want to a.) recover the important data, & b.) create a new backup that is organized the way my Mother will understand it. The contents of each directory are compressed with RAR to save space, so I need to check for errorlevels from each step. Right now, I can get most of it, but I keep getting stuck with the user inputs. So how do you ask the user for a variable that could be more than one word up to eight seperate times? She may not always need eight, but sometimes she will. It all depends on how much is on the original DVD that she wants to save.
Sorry for such a complicated one, but my idea of a tough batch file involves one single variable and a lot of excess code. I just don't understand loops other than simple IF THEN statements. Thank you very much for your help!
