I am looking for a program that will allow me to batch change all the files in a directory to their date stamp, of course replacing / for - and something with the time stamp. I have searched for this and cannot find a program to change their filenames to the files date/time stamp. Thanks in advance for any help.

That sounds more like a script. Might have better luck posting in the scripting and programming forums. Give a person a fish you feed them for a day. Ask a person to internet search and they learn a skill for a lifetime.

Hi jfreak53 This help @echo off rem Replace FileNames with Date & Time if "%1"=="" goto Err setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion dir %1 /b /a-d >~Temp1.txt type nul > ~Temp2.txt for /f %%a in (~Temp1.txt) do ( set Line=%%~ta set Line=!Line:/=-! set Line=!Line::=.! ren xx\%%a "!Line!"%%~xa ) del ~Temp?.txt exit /b :Err echo Usage: BatchFile.bat DirectoryName

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I tried the script that dtech10 posted in a batch file, and all it does is give me a Syntax of the Command is Incorrect error during the set fase. It writes nothing to the temp2 file and all it writes to the temp1 file is the filenames, which is fine, but where does it get the dates from. I needed the files to be renamed to their respective date and times, not the current. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Hi jfreak53 Opps must have been late and not thinking straight or too much beer. Try This %%~ta should contain the Date & Time of the file. put and echo before the line ren %%a "!Line!" to see whats echoed. @echo off rem Replace FileNames with Date & Time if "%1"=="" goto Err setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion for %%a in (%1\*.*) do ( set Line=%%~ta set Line=!Line:/=-! set Line=!Line::=.! if not "%%a"=="%1\!Line!" ( ren %%a "!Line!" ) ) exit /b :Err echo Usage: BatchFile.bat DirectoryName

Perfect thanks for all the help.