First of all, thank you so much for this, it's a lifesaver. So I am trying to use the command line program, which would be the PERFECT solution since I could set it up to run at midnight everynight, or as needed in silent mode... but.. I am hoping that I can make my command a bit SMARTER then it currently is..
What I am trying to accomplish:
Only work on files formatted like this: _****_**_**_**-**.ch
Change: _2016_01_05_23-07.chw
To" 160105xx.chw
What I came up with:
BRC32.exe /DIR:"C:\test" /MINLEN:“008” /PATTERN:"_****_**_**_**-**.chw" /REMOVENAME /APPENDDATE:N:P:::7 /AUTONUMBER:01:1:S::10:2 /NODUP /EXECUTE
The problems: (1 is by far more important)
1) The program needs to be run multiple times a day sometimes, is there a way to continue the numbering scheme, instead of adding _01 at the end, which defeats the whole purpose of this?
2) These files are generated everytime the machine is started, and it generates something like: _2016_01_05_XX-XX.chw, where 2016 is the year, 01 is the month, and 05 is the day. I am wondering if there is a way to SAVE the day, the month and the year will always be the same as the month and year when it's run.
For example: If I run the machine on Jan 06th, it will give me: _2016_01_06_**-**.chw (xx are random increasing). If I FORGET to run this command for a week(or the scheduling fails) and then run it, it will change all the file names but... it will change them to the date that I run the program, not the date on the file. So is there someway to get it to just recognize the DD part? I'm way out of my depth and appreciate all your help in advance.
Also tried:
BRC32.exe /DIR:"C:\test" /MINLEN:“008” /PATTERN:"_****_**_**_**-**.chw" /STRIPSYMBOLS
-Nonymoosee, the BRU newb.
but then I don't know how to change 2016 to 16 and the _**-** at the end to a numbered 01-99, and problem 1 still exists.