multiple renaming files

[Blisk]

Sorry still don't know where is a problem.
If script found file copied.txt it will skip it and go further.
If that is a problem for script than it should delete copied.txt and create it again.

[Salmon Trout]

So...
IF this file is found:
d:\myfolder\archive\NAME\documents\exist.txt
THEN
This file (if it exists):
d:\myfolder\archive\NAME\documents\today\not_copied.txt
SHALL BE RENAMED TO
d:\myfolder\archive\NAME\documents\today\copied.txt
go to next NAME

BUT IF d:\myfolder\archive\NAME\documents\today\copied.txt ALREADY EXISTS...
don't do anything; leave not.copied.txt alone; leave copied.txt alone,
go to next NAME
Is that right?

[Blisk]

BUT IF d:\myfolder\archive\NAME\documents\today\copied.txt ALREADY EXISTS...
don't do anything; leave not.copied.txt alone; leave copied.txt alone,
go to next NAME
Is that right?

no, there should never exist not_copied.txt and copied.txt both the same time in folder
d:\myfolder\archive\NAME\documents\today
is should exist only one file, not_copied.txt which will be renamed to copied.txt
or copied.txt which should be as it is.

[Salmon Trout]

This may work for you... perhaps you can try it...

Batch to be run in D:\Myfolder

In my test setup, folders under "d:\myfolder\archive" are:

Bill
George
Gil
Joe
John
Mary
Mike
Nina
Peter
Sam
Steve

Of these,

Bill, Mike, Peter, do NOT have an exist.txt in their folder d:\myfolder\Archive\NAME\documents\

The others all do

all NAMEs have a not_copied.txt in folder d:\myfolder\Archive\NAME\documents\today\

I suggest you run the batch on a COPY of your data until you are happy that it does what you want!!!

@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
set "thisdir=%cd%"
for /f "delims=" %%A in ('dir archive /b /ad') do (
    set NAME=%%A
    REM echo Checking archive\!NAME!
    if exist "Archive\!NAME!\documents\exist.txt" (
    echo Archive\!NAME!\documents\documents\exist.txt FOUND
    if exist "Archive\!NAME!\documents\today\not_copied.txt" (   
       echo Archive\!NAME!\documents\today\not_copied.txt FOUND
       echo RENAME to copied.txt
            ren "archive\!NAME!\documents\today\not_copied.txt" "copied.txt" && echo Renamed OK
            ) else (
            echo Archive\!NAME!\documents\today\not_copied.txt NOT FOUND
        )
        ) else (
        echo Archive\!NAME!\documents%%A\documents\exist.txt NOT FOUND
    )
    echo.
)



Here is an example of the batch console output:

Archive\Bill\documentsBill\documents\exist.txt NOT FOUND

Archive\George\documents\documents\exist.txt FOUND
Archive\George\documents\today\not_copied.txt FOUND
RENAME to copied.txt
Renamed OK

Archive\Gil\documents\documents\exist.txt FOUND
Archive\Gil\documents\today\not_copied.txt FOUND
RENAME to copied.txt
Renamed OK

Archive\Joe\documents\documents\exist.txt FOUND
Archive\Joe\documents\today\not_copied.txt FOUND
RENAME to copied.txt
Renamed OK

Archive\John\documents\documents\exist.txt FOUND
Archive\John\documents\today\not_copied.txt FOUND
RENAME to copied.txt
Renamed OK

Archive\Mary\documents\documents\exist.txt FOUND
Archive\Mary\documents\today\not_copied.txt FOUND
RENAME to copied.txt
Renamed OK

Archive\Mike\documentsMike\documents\exist.txt NOT FOUND

Archive\Nina\documents\documents\exist.txt FOUND
Archive\Nina\documents\today\not_copied.txt FOUND
RENAME to copied.txt
Renamed OK

Archive\Peter\documentsPeter\documents\exist.txt NOT FOUND

Archive\Sam\documents\documents\exist.txt FOUND
Archive\Sam\documents\today\not_copied.txt FOUND
RENAME to copied.txt
Renamed OK

Archive\Steve\documents\documents\exist.txt FOUND
Archive\Steve\documents\today\not_copied.txt FOUND
RENAME to copied.txt
Renamed OK

[Blisk]

Thank you it work great.
Also I have learned something new regarding scripts.

I can also use this script in reverse, so renaming files not_copied into copied in folders which doesn't have file exist.txt
If I need that, for now I don't need it.
Thank you



@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
set "thisdir=%cd%"
for /f "delims=" %%A in ('dir archive /b /ad') do (
    set NAME=%%A
    REM echo Checking archive\!NAME!
    if not exist "Archive\!NAME!\documents\exist.txt" (
    echo Archive\!NAME!\documents\documents\exist.txt NOT FOUND
    if exist "Archive\!NAME!\documents\today\not_copied.txt" (   
       echo Archive\!NAME!\documents\today\not_copied.txt FOUND
       echo RENAME to copied.txt
            ren "archive\!NAME!\documents\today\not_copied.txt" "copied.txt" && echo Renamed OK
            ) else (
            echo Archive\!NAME!\documents\today\not_copied.txt NOT FOUND
        )
        ) else (
        echo Archive\!NAME!\documents%%A\documents\exist.txt NOT FOUND
    )
    echo.
)

[Salmon Trout]

Well done! It is always satisfying when a script is used for learning.