Hi, great site! Iv been helped a lot by this forum over the last week while putting together a batch file..this is 1 of the best batch sites iv found..of which there are many...so thanks so far ----------------------- I'v create a batch file to backup a 'user profile' folder that could exist in 4 different known locations on c:\(or it could be present in all 4 locations on c:\) So far so good, The problem starts if the profile is located on an unknown drive or path:..im really struggling with this and indeed may be thinking the wrong way with needing 2 seperate batches In thinking: 1) Create a second batch file which searches all drives for instances of the 'user profile' folder, then assigns the path of each profile found to a variable 2) 2nd batch file would then edit the first batch, ie search and replace all known 'folder location data' with the new paths stored in the variables created Constraints: a) Its possible the user could have saved the profile to non default location, so just changing driver letters may not be enough so to verify a 'found user profile': :bat2 Do all instances of file found ( If found( "\Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare\players\profiles\active.txt" ) then assign 'full path' to variable ) any help would be appreciated

ok after botching some codes from around this forum I can now search all drives for a folder Im sure this code is processing more than it needs to, how can i tweak the inner for loop to search all drives/files(instead of only its own folder) removing the need for the outer for loop @echo off setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion for %%d in (C D) do ( for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in ('dir/s/b/a-s \"Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare"') do ( set var=%%~DPa echo the path to profile directory is !var! ) ) @pause

Remove the outer loop and replace the inner one with this: for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in ('dir/s/b/a-s "C:\Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare" "D:\Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare"') By the way, are you sure every PC has just a C: and a D: drive? What if it had an E: drive?

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Going loopy with this, basically I need a batch file to: 1)Start searching C: for folder called "players" 2) IF Found: search the path of the folder(as a string) for string "VirtualStore" If True assign folder path to variable + "UAC ON" ELSE search the folder path location for a file called iw3mp.exe IF TRUE assign folder path to variable + "UAC OFF" ELSE Continue Searching Tthe Rest Of The Drive 3)Repeat Until All available HD's have been searched D E F etc, with Found/Verified 'players folder' locations set to variables The code below is to check for the "VirtualStore" string in the pathname ..but it complains of wrong syntax in the FOR statment...also I would need to create variables on the fly because the number of profiles that it could be found is unknown ECHO SEARCHING... FOR /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a IN ('dir/s/b/a-s "\players"') DO ( echo %playersLoc% | find "VirtualStore" if errorlevel 1 goto :not-found :found ECHO found goto :end :not-found ECHO not found :end )

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The command processor doesn't like the closing bracket coming straight after a label. If you add a statement (such as type nul) between :end and ")" then it will work. What you're doing may be easier with VBScript, but I'm not an expert in that; others on this forum are.