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That's it! awesome man, you just made me a very happy person. Thank you so much.

yeah, running it out of he movies folder.

returned with a

@echo off for /f "delims=" %%a in ('dir folder.JPG /b /s') do ( for /f "delims=" %%b in ("%%~dpa\.") do ( attrib -h "%%a" copy /b "%%a" "C:\xampp\htdocs\project-T\lists\movies\%%~nxb.JPG" attrib +h "%%a" ) ) pause its not that it...

C:\Users\Necro>attrib "J:\Movies\12 Monkeys (1995)\folder.jpg" H J:\Movies\12 Monkeys (1995)\folder.jpg thats the attrib command. i'm not sure what happened earlier, im pretty sure it removed the originals, because i have system files and hidden files visible.

the files do not have a system attribute, and while running @echo off for /f "delims=" %%a in ('dir folder.JPG /b /s') do ( for /f "delims=" %%b in ("%%~dpa\.") do ( attrib -h -s "%%a" copy /b "%%a" "C:\xampp\htdocs\project-T\lists\movies\%%~nxb...

i'm getting a file not found, as it cannot find the folder.jpg

I've discovered it, all of the folder.jpg's are marked as hidden files, how would I go about ignoring such a property?

or possibly a script to make all movie folders un/hidden recurring to all files

I've discovered it, all of the folder.jpg's are marked as hidden files, how would I go about ignoring such a property?

So I tried adopting this script to work on the .jpg files that are in each folder and yet it doesnt pick them all up. @echo off for /f "delims=" %%a in ('dir folder.JPG /b /s') do ( for /f "delims=" %%b in ("%%~dpa\.") do ( echo copy "%%a" "C:\xampp\htdoc...

Thank you so much foxidrive, life saver.

yup, i realized that just then before you replied. me slaps forehead.

yeah, i left it in to see what it displays and it shows. copy "J:\Movies\Venom (2005)\mymovies.xml" "C:\folder\Venom (2005).xml" copy "J:\Movies\Warrior's Way, The (2010)\mymovies.xml" "C:\folder\Warrior's Way, The (2010).xml" copy "J:\Movies\Weekend at B...

from the echo statement, it appears to do what I want, but it is not creating the copies in C:\folder\

any ideas?

thanks alot too man, its awesome how fast and accurate you were in responding.

Hey guys, ive been spending hours trying to write a script: This script will sit in my hard drive, next to my movies folder(which has hundreds of movie folders inside of it), each movie folder is named with YAMMM, my multimedia software and provided with a .xml file with the movies information. I wa...