No Idea Whats Happening?

[Notelek_Labs]

ok, so when I run the exe Snapz.exe it takes a picture with the webcam and saves it in the same directory as itself as snapz.dib, I rename it and move it to another directory. BUT what ends up happening is that when I run this a picture shows up where I expect it to in the F:\security\face.png BUT the picture that shows up is the picture that was taken the previous time that I run this code. Why?

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start "" /b "snapz.exe"
ren snapz.dib face.png
move /-y "F:\DATA\face.png" "F:\security\"
del snapz.dib

[foxidrive]

Any good?

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del snapz.dib 2>nul
start "" /b "snapz.exe"
ren snapz.dib face.png
move /-y "face.png" "F:\security\"
del snapz.dib

[Squashman]

You can use the move command to rename at the same time. You should have no need to delete the dib file if you are renaming it.

[foxidrive]

So this should work - was the start command there for a reason?

Note that the /-y can leave the snapz.dib in place - but the lower del command will remove it.
And I added the pushd to change to the snapz folder - so modify that.

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@echo off
pushd "c:\snapz"
del snapz.dib 2>nul
"snapz.exe"
move /-y "snapz.dib" "F:\security\face.png"
del snapz.dib 2>nul
popd