system cannot find specified file

[Dias de verano]

Well, you can take the ECHO out.

I just created a folder called c:\batch.files and I put 1 file in it called hope.txt and then I ran this

ren "c:\batch.files\hope.txt" o7-2008-.txt

and now I have 1 file in there called o7-2008-.txt

so there is nothing wrong with the code.

Check that folder & file names match exactly and are all as they should be.

[carlrowley1]

Check that folder & file names match exactly and are all as they should be.

I have just tryied this i have a folder called c:\ batch.files with hope.txt  in it  but when i run it i have the same problem
ren "c:\batch.files\hope.txt" o7-2008-.txt.........

[carlrowley1]

sorry dias got to rush

i will try this again on thursday or if i can SEND YOU A PRIVATE MESSAGE  .

CARN;T  figure out why i have these problems, as again i started with the example i copied, and thought that would work fine.

the very first code i mentioned was the one in the example, i seem to have tryed everything , but got no where as usual ....but i try again on thursday

just a recap

i have a folder called batch.files which is in the directory c:\batch.files  and i have a txt file called hope.txt in there.........................thanks

[Dusty]

If this quote means what I think it means:

i have a folder called batch.files which is in the directory c:\batch.files  and i have a txt file called hope.txt in there

then your path to hope.txt is not C:\batch.files\ but C:\batch.files\batch.files\ so you would have to ...ren c:\batch.files\batch.files\hope.txt...

I have the impression that the file is not being found because it is not in the correct or specified path.

Try a simple dir C:\hope.txt and dir C:\batch.files\hope.txt and dir C:\batch.files\batch.files\hope.txt to find out which path it is in.

Edit:  Had another thought.  If your script has already been run and has worked then Hope.txt would have been renamed. look for a file with a date as the name.

[carlrowley1]

Try a simple dir C:\hope.txt and dir C:\batch.files\hope.txt and dir C:\batch.files\batch.files\hope.txt to find out which path it is in.

this is what i tryed

dir c:\hope.............file not found
dir c:\batch.files\hope.txt......file not found
dir c:\batch.files\batch.files\hope.txt......system cannot find file

this is the latest one i have tryed but it still cannot find the file

[Posted by: Sidewinder  Posted on: July 21, 2008, 07:04:41 PM 
Insert Quote 
When defining your own delimiters, the space character is no longer the default. To add back the space, you need to define it as part of the delimiter pool.


Code:
@echo off
for /f "tokens=1-4 delims=/ " %%d in ("%date%") do ren "hope.txt" %%e-%%f-%%g.txt


FYI: %date% produces four parameters (ie: Mon 07/21/2008)

 
/quote]

[Sidewinder]

Based on your post, this should work but apparently doesn't:

Code: [Select]

@echo off
for /f "tokens=1-4 delims=/ " %%d in ("%date%") do ren "c:\batch.files\hope.txt" %%e-%%f-%%g.txt

Why does hope.txt have zero bytes? Is hope.txt a hidden, system or read-only file?

 

[carlrowley1]

Why does hope.txt have zero bytes? Is hope.txt a hidden, system or read-only file?

i ve just put a few line lines in  there

 i just created it for an example. so it carn't be a hidden , system file. or read only file
just don't know why it carn;t find it... its puzzeling me...because it seems so simple the hope.txt is in the c:\batch.files directory

[carlrowley1]

quote from sidewinder

Based on your post, this should work but apparently doesn't:


Code:
@echo off
for /f "tokens=1-4 delims=/ " %%d in ("%date%") do ren "c:\batch.files\hope.txt" %%e-%%f-%%g.txt

sorry guys this is what i should have been putting   

@ echo off
for /f "tokens=1-4 delims=/ " %%d in ("%date%") do ren "c:\batch.files\hope.txt.txt" %%e-%%f-%%g.txt
pause

had to add another .txt on the end, so sorry if i got you all confused...these things happen if you have just started learning........    

[Dias de verano]

hope.txt is in the c:\batch.files directory

How do you know this?

[Sidewinder]

had to add another .txt on the end, so sorry if i got you all confused...these things happen if you have just started learning........

I'm a little slow on the uptake, so is the problem solved?

Hopefully waiting   

[carlrowley1]

yes problem solved.........thanks everyone.....until the next time

[Dias de verano]

had to add another .txt on the end, so sorry if i got you all confused...these things happen if you have just started learning........

I'm a little slow on the uptake, so is the problem solved?

Hopefully waiting   

Sidewinder, I doubt if carlrowley is going to answer that question, so perhaps I will have a stab.

There never was a problem. Or rather, there was, but it was in front of the keyboard, not behind it. The OP stated that he could not rename a file called "hope.txt". Despite questions such as these he continued to maintain that this file existed and was located in a certain folder:

Check that folder & file names match exactly and are all as they should be.

However, he finally stated that the file was actually called hope.txt.txt.

One can speculate about the reasons for this, and I suspect that it may have something to do with hidden file extensions in Windows Explorer. Anyway, we all got royally led up the garden path.

[carlrowley1]

so basically if the file was just called "HOPE" it would have worked the first time because it automatically adds the .txt  , hope being a txt file


so there was a file called "hope.txt" but the computer is adding another .txt on when searching for it....thus comeing back as file not found

[Dias de verano]

No. ""Basically" there was a file called hope.txt.txt. You seemed to think it was called hope.txt. The computer knew all along what it was called. It was you that didn't. You should uncheck "hide extensions for known file types" in Windows Explorer folder options to avoid any more "problems" like this one.

[carlrowley1]

You should uncheck "hide extensions for known file types" in Windows Explorer folder options to avoid any more "problems" like this one.

thanks dias just done that,  works fine