[xibit1987]

Hi Guys and Girls

I'm currently working on a very simple batch sorting "program" with drag and drop.

But I have a very strange problem. i can't drag and drop more than 38 files. then it says that i do not have permission to the drive, path or file.

i have checked every thing about the permission problem, and i have all rights to the drive, path and files.

Here is the code:

@echo off
if [%1]==[] goto :eof
:loop
IF NOT EXIST %~dp1SORTERET\ ( MKDIR %~dp1SORTERET )
IF NOT EXIST %~dp1SORTERET\file%~x1\ ( MKDIR %~dp1SORTERET\file%~x1 )
MOVE /Y %1 %~dp1SORTERET\file%~x1\
shift
if not [%1]==[] goto loop 

Basically i want the batch file to create a folder called "SORTERET" in the folder where all the files are.

And in that folder create a new folder with the extension name of the file it is handling, ect. exe.
The the folder must be called "file.exe" or even just "exe", why i want it to be called "file" first, is becaus of some of my files have no extension so when it is handling the "no extension file" it will just create a folder called "file"
Then i want to move the file to that folder.

It is working as planed. but only for 38 files at a time.
What i want it to do is sorting my mixed files folder with more than 1000 files in it.

[TheOutcaste]

Welcome to TSG!

You are limited to 8191 characters + a CR in a command line. The files you drop will include the full path to the file, plus 2 quotes, and a space between each filename. Plus you have to add in the length of the batch file path/name as well.
Here's the result of dropping 4 files from My Documents\Tech Info on a test.cmd batch file in the C:\Test Dir folder. The line length is 313 characters.

 C:\Test Dir\Test.cmd "C:\Documents and Settings\TheOutcaste\My Documents\Tech Info\DIMM0.txt" "C:\Documents and Settings\TheOutcaste\My Documents\Tech Info\DIMM1.txt" "C:\Documents and Settings\TheOutcaste\My Documents\Tech Info\DIMM2.txt" "C:\Documents and Settings\TheOutcaste\My Documents\Tech Info\DIMM3.txt"

If you are several folders deep under My Documents it gets long quite quickly.

Would probably be better to drop the parent folder on the batch file, then use a For loop to run through each file in the folder.
Something like this should work:

@Echo Off
If [%1]==[] Goto _Usage
If Not Exist "%~1" Goto _Usage2
If Not Exist %~s1\nul Goto _Usage1
Set _Source=%1
PushD "%_Source%"
For /F "Tokens=1 Delims=" %%A In ('Dir /A-D /B %_Source%') Do (
IF NOT EXIST "%%~dpASORTERET" MKDIR "%%~dpASORTERET"
IF NOT EXIST "%%~dpASORTERET\file%%~xA" MKDIR "%%~dpASORTERET\file%%~xA"
MOVE /Y "%%A" "%%~dpASORTERET\file%%~xA"
)
PopD
Goto :EOF
:_Usage2
Echo Error: %1 does not exist.
Goto _Usage
:_Usage1
Echo Parameter Error: %1 is a file name.
Echo                : Please specify a folder name
:_Usage
Echo.
Echo %~n0 [drive:][path]foldername
Echo.
Echo.  foldername  : Name of the folder to process.
Echo.              : It must be quoted if it contains spaces and is entered
Echo.              : on the Command Line. If dropped on the batch file or it's
Echo.              : shortcut, it will be quoted automatically
Echo.
Pause

HTH

Jerry

[xibit1987]

You are the man

Thx so much, now i will go right ahed and test it. And i can see I have much to learn. i was looking into the FOR LOOP, but didn't quite understand it. hope i will some day

I will return as quickly as i can, and mark it as solved if it works as i planned

EDIT: It's working like a charm, i can only dream of being just as good as you

[TheOutcaste]

You're welcome!

Thanks for letting us know it worked.

Jerry

[xibit1987]

It was the least i could do, after such a great service from your side