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That's got it working!
Thanks alot, will save me alot of time in not messing about changing to file path manually!
Thanks!!!!!!

Hello, I want it to work as abc0502 has stated. the file company isnt a text file it is just listed as a file (its isn't called company.txt, just company) i have to open it with notedpad to see the contents. It is a file that the accounts program, sage, looks at and is pointed to the location of the...

hello again.

it is plain text.
when i open the file using notepad (right click open with) all thats in the file is the text S:\Accounts

I cant upload the file unfortunatly as the companys firewall blocks file sharing sites.

Thanks for the reply Foxidrive,

I gave that a go but unfotunately it didnt work.

could it be because what im trying to edit isnt a txt file its just listed as 'file' as the type?

you can open it with notepad to see the contents.

Thanks again,

iain

from looking at it it looks as though it will just change s:\accounts to \\sage\SG50Acc$\Data\ i need it to look at whats there and swap to the other, maybe using an if staement? if text in file = S:\Accounts then text in file = \\sage\SG50Acc$\Data\ elseif text in file = \\sage\SG50Acc$\Data\ then ...

Hello, there are no blank lines in the file just the a line that will either be S:\Accounts or \\SAGE\SG50Acc$\Data\ my company has 2 versions of sage and point to different locations (the file paths above) so i want the batch file to change the file so so the user can swap between sage locations! I...

Hello, I'm trying to make a batch file to change a line of text in a file depending what the line is.... I have written this bit of code (with the help of google) but it doesnt work! Set objFS = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") strFile = "C:\ProgramData\Sage\Company.txt"...