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Use double quotes in the set command:

SET/P "=TEXT" <nul | CLIP

OJBakker

One way that seems to work: Go to the location of your batchfile in explorer. Right click on your batchfile: click Create Shortcut. Now you have a shortcut with the correct batchfile and starting directory. The only problem is this is implicit started by the cmd.exe. Next step is make this start exp...

OJBakker

Use a for/L loop to do the countdown, and in the loop do the echoing for your message followed by an invisible timeout /T 1. And with invisible I mean suppress the output of timeout with >nul.

OJBakker

Just add a few lines to your script and the answer is obvious. Try the script below. setlocal enabledelayedexpansion enableextensions set name1=1 setlocal disabledelayedexpansion enableextensions set name2=2 setlocal enabledelayedexpansion enableextensions set name3=3 set name endlocal set name endl...

OJBakker

Set Var reports all variables starting with Var
Try add a closing "]" in the clear routine.

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REM Clear Array
	FOR /F "delims==" %%1 IN ('SET STR[%%A]') DO SET "%%1="

OJBakker

Such a small script and you seem to fundamentally unable to interpreted what that script is doing. There is nothing fake about the error message you get and your script is doing exactly what you programmed, although not what you intended it to do. You intend to process a list of valid drive-identifi...

OJBakker

You still do not see what happens?
Drive Z: is completely processed. The error happens after that!
So your script tries to process 'something' after all the drives are processed and that is causing the error you are getting.

OJBakker

Ok, next hint, try the following script, that should make it clear where your problems originate!

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@echo off
for /F "skip=1" %%D in ('wmic logicaldisk get caption') do (
    echo Processing drive: [%%D]
    cd /D %%D
    dir /AH /S "~$*.xlsm"
    del /AH /S /Q ~$*.xlsm
)
pause

OJBakker

Try again with echo ON.
This will show you were your code goes wrong!
Hint, there is nothing wrong with the filename or location.

OJBakker

add

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dir /AH /S "~$*.xlsm"

before the

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del /AH /S /Q ~$*.xlsm

line.
This will show which files are selected to be deleted.
It is probably a file with a space or % or poison character like & or | in the filename.

OJBakker

Use the standard line-continuation of cmd using a caret at the end of the line. The following will probably work (untested): powershell.exe -Command "$directories = @('C:\Users\YOUR-USER-NAME\AppData\Roaming\ASCOMP Software\BackUp Maker\logs');^ foreach ($directory in $directories) { Set-Location -P...

OJBakker

Not a real comment but you can hide your comment in a non-existent variable followed by the line-continuation caret. The my comment part must still be valid cmd syntax. @echo on cls dir c:\ ^ %==my comment==% ^ /one pause An other option is to use a null character to hide your comment from cmd. Ever...

OJBakker

Here is a different approach using a for-loop. rem with the echo messages set "error=" for %%D in ("libiconv2.dll", "libintl3.dll" "libcharset1.dll") do ( if exist "%%D" ( set "%%~nd=y" echo %%D exsists ) ) if not defined libiconv2 (set "Dep_3=y" & set error=6) if not defined libintl3 (set "Dep_4=y"...

OJBakker

This batchfile lists for the files in the current directory the file extensions found and how many files have these extensions. Line by line: The setlocal is needed so the extensions/counters will not be stored in the environment and persist after the batchfile is finished. The dir /b/a-d "%cd%" par...

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SystemRoot=C:\WINDOWS So "%SystemRoot%/system32/cmd.exe" becomes "C:\WINDOWS/system32/cmd.exe" what gets executed is md .exe so probably something like this happens command looks like %ComSpec% but with some forward slashes instead of backslashes. ComSpec=C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe command is inte...

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