Hi There, I am trying to figure out how to write a batch program that will take the first 4 characters of a file name (from the cd rom) and move it to the appropriate file name folder. For example, the cd has pdf files called 0001a.pdf, 0002a.pdf, 0003a.pdf, etc. I want to parse the first 4 characters, and move the pdf file to the folders called 0001, 0002, 0003, etc. Any ideas ?

Untested batch: GoTo start Steps to use: 1. Save this as whatever.bat 2. Move whatever.bat to where you want to plant the new directory tree 3. Drag'n'drop the drive/folder icon that holds the all of the files to whatever.bat's icon. 4. I can't be held responsible if you don't follow step 3. May your God have mercy on your computer if you fail to follow step 3. :start FOR %%a IN (%1\*.*) DO call :doWork "%%~Na" "%%~Fa" GoTo :eof :doWork SET d=%~1 SET d=%d:~0,4% MD %d% COPY %2 %d%

a vbscript: [code] Option Explicit Dim objFSO,srcRoot,objFolder,File,dstRoot,theName,dst,dstFile Set objFSO=CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") srcRoot="c:\temp" dstRoot="c:\test1" Set objFolder=objFSO.GetFolder(srcRoot) For Each File In objFolder.Files If objFSO.GetExtensionName(File) = "pdf" Then theName= Left(File.Name,4) dst=dstRoot & "\" & theName dstFile=dst & "\" & File.Name If Not objFSO.FolderExists(dst) Then objFSO.CreateFolder(dst) End If objFSO.MoveFile File, dstFile End If Next [/code]

Is it possible to modify this vbs script to just move files to a folder of the same name that already exists? I would also like to rename the once they are moved to the new folder. They would all have the same name.