Hi folks! Need some help here. I'm trying to sever thousand files to a directory in sequence of 100 at the time. So I want to copy 100 files first, then wait about 60 seconds to copy the next 100. This is what I got so far: @echo off setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion :START TIMEOUT 60 GO TO LOOP :LOOP FOR /F "tokens=* delims= " %%i IN ('dir /b ') DO ( set /a N+=1 move "%%i" D:/MYDIRECTORY if !N! geq 100 GOTO START ) ::DONE The first time it goes through fine for the first 100 files. But when it goes back to START, it starts copying one file every 60 seconds. Any help would be appreciated. T.

@echo off & setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion :LOOP set /A limit+=100 TIMEOUT 60 FOR %%i IN (*) DO ( set /A N+=1 move "%%i" D:/MYDIRECTORY if !N! geq %limit% GOTO :LOOP ) :DONE

The following is an enhanced version of the native script without GOTOs and avoiding the initial 60 seconds delay. @echo off & setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion set LIM=100 for %%i in (*) do ( set /A N+=1 move "%%i" D:/MYDIRECTORY if !N! geq !LIM! (TimeOut 60 & set /A LIM+=100) ) :DONE

It worked like a charm, thanks for the help.