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Even better. I had not considered using a ping as a wait.

Thanks again!

PERFECTION! Your modification did the trick and allowed my batch file to run. It enabled me to do some debugging on mine and found that I needed to split the merge routine from the move/rename. Odd considering that it ran combined as a stand alone without issue - but I'm not complaining. I also had ...

Thanks DccD. Yes it does make sense. I neglected to say in my post that it was one of the things I had tried. It executed the code that you did for me yesterday but the second script never starts. I even put a pause in it so I could watch it but it never launches. I also tried playing with combinati...

I got some excellent help here yesterday from Dccd who very quickly solved a problem for me that I have been struggling with for a time. I thought I was all set, but it turns out that I'm in need of help again. I needed a batch file that would take exactly 8 pdfs from a directory, move them to anoth...

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Perfect! Thanks so much for your help with this.

Best Regards.

This is great. Thanks DCCD! I'm trying to refine it a bit because it will take any value below 8 files. My test directory had 11 files. It moved 8 and renamed them perfectly. But when i ran it a second time, it move the remaining three. I need it to exit if there aren't exactly 8. I tried using an I...

I've researched this for days and cannot resolve this issue and thought I'd ask for some expert advice. I need to move a quantity of PDF files from one directory to another. They are unrelated as to file name and I must move EXACTLY 8 at a time. What files or the order in which they are moved does n...