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Many thanks for all your help on this. I have managed to find another way of doing this. I will keep your suggestions for future tasks though.

Steffen

That's it!! I knew it was something as simple as that.
Changing the line:
For /D %%K IN ("C:\This Folder\*") DO ...
works for me!!
Thank you so much!!

Using xcopy with the code below. I have read you can put double quotes around the source and destination folder so that the folders with spaces can be treated correctly as a directory. However, when I use quotes around the path it shows an error: Invalid number of parameters For /D %%K IN ("C:\This ...

Squashman - Many thanks for the quick reply. However, I am not familar with these. This code was written by someone else and left with comments in but I have substituted the following lines of code is this correct? Also what do I need to change to make a folder with the current date? SETLOCAL FOR /f...

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