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I tried your second one - it looked the simplest. It did no better than my own primitive efforts. Could you please tell me what the 'pause' achieves ? Your first one achieves what I want, so I repeat what I said in 2021 "That worked ! Thank you." For what it is worth - it is just alphabet soup to me...

I do not know when the success ended nor why, but that code no longer copies (any) file into the destination. Perhaps because I have shifted the goal posts. I do not remember why I wanted a FOLDER copied. I may have used the wrong term, actually meaning FILE - that is certainly what I want NOW in 20...

Before I saw your latest post, it occurred to me that Batcher's had achieved the deletion that I wanted so I planned to use it. I believed that my own batch file was good at copying the (latest) file back into C:\Data\Firefox\Bookmarks but that is was failing to delete file(s) already there, so ran ...

I'll accept any blame that is due - in the hope that a solution to my problem will eventuate. 'You seem to be incapable of reading/following the most elementary instructions!' I have tried and apparently failed. 'This confirms that your problem file had no permissions problem.' I take that to be goo...

Oh jee ! bakker ! You must have made a mess of the oven contents ! (hahaha) Starting with the simplest instructions (right at the end) ..... I created a batch file from Batcher's code and ran it. Of course a DOS window opened - and stayed open without seeming to achieve anything, so I just closed it...

OJBaker - I started my post by saying that I can MANUALLY delete the file; does not that settle the issues of "A file can have file attributes preventing deletion, for example if a file is set to readonly. AND A file can also have security settings preventing deletion." I think it is quite likely th...

I'm not familiar with the term 'for loop', hence the "I don't understand" Unless I misunderstand you, you are suggesting that deletion will occur if I put the entire file name in quotes first. But that would require me to intervene 'manually' before applying the batchfile - which annuls the advantag...

OJBakker - you seem to be focusing on the deletion of multiple files - I would be satisfied if just ONE got deleted by batch file code. The code I have used and which fails is del /q C:\Data\Firefox\Bookmarks\*.jsonlz4 and also del C:\Data\Firefox\Bookmarks\*.jsonlz4 /q Notice that these files are C...

DOSadnie - I mean that if I click on those files and press the delete key, the files disappear - something I have NOT achieved when using a batch file.

I have no trouble 'manually' deleting files with the extension .jsonlz4, preceded by '==', but want to do it by batchfile and keep failing. Can anyone help me with the right code to do this ? One example of such a file is 'bookmarks-2023-09-02_304_NTwyuxMm2eEdhF++Azc4Bw==.jsonlz4'

That solved it - THANK you.

I want to routinely backup Chrome bookmarks to some folder; I want to simplify it by using a batch file. If I manually go to C:\Users\Joe\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\bookmarks, click on it, select COPY, open the destination, and click on PASTE in its context menu, I have success. B...

I wrote to the forum for MP3Tag and was told that the ACTIONS menu would solve my problem, but was not given the detailed steps. I investigated ACTIONS and saw the claim written in its 'documentation', but that is as far as it went. I have done much work in Macro Express and consulted with their dev...

Thanks for your reply. I'll look at exiftool, or persevere with the automation that Mp3Tag is supposed to provide....

I wanted to automate a process on some files that MP3Tag can perform. The developers says that automation is available within that program, and I have seen that the Actions menu appears to offer that, but I have been unable to make it work for me. So I have looked for alternatives. I would normally ...