multiple renaming files

[Blisk]

Can someone help me rename multiple files.
I have about 50 folders with subfolders and need a batch which will rename file if it finds another file in folder
So I need script to find file exist.txt and if that file exist than script should rename not_copied.txt to copied.txt
like belov

d:\myfolder\archive\john\documents\exist.txt
d:\myfolder\archive\john\documents\today\not_copied.txt
renamed to
d:\myfolder\archive\john\documents\today\copied.txt

do nothing
d:\myfolder\archive\george\documents\
d:\myfolder\archive\george\documents\today\not_copied.txt


d:\myfolder\archive\nina\documents\exist.txt
d:\myfolder\archive\nina\documents\today\not_copied.txt
rename to
d:\myfolder\archive\nina\documents\today\copied.txt

do nothing
d:\myfolder\archive\peter\documents\
d:\myfolder\archive\peter\documents\today\not_copied.txt

do nothing
d:\myfolder\archive\gil\documents\
d:\myfolder\archive\gil\documents\today\not_copied.txt

I will run that batch in folder d:\myfolder

[Salmon Trout]

I'm kinda wondering... are John, George, Nina, Peter, and Gil real people?

[Blisk]

yes they are real people and they have real documents

[Salmon Trout]

Just kidding... under d:\myfolder\archive there could be any number of folders called [person] with a folder called \documents underneath?

[Salmon Trout]

Questions: For each of these persons (or whatever)...
Does the \documents\today folder always exist?
Does the \documents\today folder always have a file called not_copied.txt in it?
If it does, is there never a file called copied.txt in that folder?

[Blisk]

yes all exist.
Also exist copied.txt in some folders and that file is deleted once per week and it is created again after some other batch is finished.

[Salmon Trout]

If copied.txt exists already, what should happen to it?

[Blisk]

If copied.txt exists already, what should happen to it?

nothing.
copied.txt should stay as it is, but not_copied.txt should rename to copied.txt

[Salmon Trout]

nothing.
copied.txt should stay as it is, but not_copied.txt should rename to copied.txt

Rename will fail because you cannot have two files in a folder with the same name.

[Blisk]

Rename will fail because you cannot have two files in a folder with the same name.

there is no two files in folder with same name, it is only one file.

[Salmon Trout]

Your original question seeks to do this:

d:\myfolder\archive\john\documents\today\not_copied.txt
renamed to
d:\myfolder\archive\john\documents\today\copied.txt
 

That is, not_copied.txt renamed to copied.txt in that folder.

I asked:

If copied.txt exists already, what should happen to it?

I clearly meant "if d:\myfolder\archive\john\documents\today\copied.txt already exists in that folder, what should happen to it?"

One of us is confused, which one?

[Blisk]

if that file exist than it should leave it
if there exist not_copied.txt it should rename it if laso file exist.txt exist.

[Salmon Trout]

You cannot have 2 files called copied.txt in the same folder.

If copied.txt already exists in the same folder, what new name should not_copied.txt have? And what if that new name already exists etc?

Are these really the names, or just placeholders used in your question?

I have a script which looks OK, but I shall not post it here unless you address this.

I will soon click "unnotify", so please answer if you want any more help.

[Squashman]

Your original question seeks to do this:

That is, not_copied.txt renamed to copied.txt in that folder.

I asked:

I clearly meant "if d:\myfolder\archive\john\documents\today\copied.txt already exists in that folder, what should happen to it?"

One of us is confused, which one?

Did they edit their question at some point because I see this.

d:\myfolder\archive\nina\documents\exist.txt
d:\myfolder\archive\nina\documents\today\not_copied.txt

[Salmon Trout]

Did they edit their question at some point because I see this.

d:\myfolder\archive\nina\documents\exist.txt
d:\myfolder\archive\nina\documents\today\not_copied.txt

That was not edited; that is not the problem. The requirement appears to be this:

d:\myfolder\archive\nina\documents\exist.txt
d:\myfolder\archive\nina\documents\today\not_copied.txt
rename to
d:\myfolder\archive\nina\documents\today\copied.txt

See? Same folder for copied.txt (the desired end result) I guess this could be an error.

That is

Look in folder $NAME\documents for a file called exists.txt
    If it is found:
    Look in folder $NAME\documents\today for a file called not_copied.txt
         If that is found:
         Rename it to copied_txt

I appear to have set the cat among the pigeons by asking innocently "What happens if copied.txt already exists?".

Looking behind the code for a moment, I am wondering if the desired end result is to copy or move not_copied.txt to another folder as copied.txt. That is, conceptually, the names copied and not_copied clash with the idea of 'rename'. Copy duplicates a file; rename leaves it in place. The question of what to do if the desired destination file place/name already exists still remains, though.