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VideoHelp Forum - Computer https://forum.videohelp.com/ Talk about anything related to PC hardware or software here. en Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:01:37 GMT vBulletin 60 https://forum.videohelp.com/images/misc/rss.png VideoHelp Forum - Computer https://forum.videohelp.com/ <![CDATA[Wrong variable expansion with names having a comma but no space [Windows]]]> https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/420286-Wrong-variable-expansion-with-names-having-a-comma-but-no-space-%5BWindows%5D?goto=newpost Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:24:04 GMT I've made a few .bat scripts to rename or compress files dragged-and-dropped onto them. They work with most files which have no non-ASCII characters, but they fail in one particular case: files with a name that has a comma but no space. Apparently, because there's no space, the variable (or rather the argument) is expanded with no quotation marks, and then the comma is interpreted as a delimiter. Is there any workaround?

Example:

Code:

chcp 1252

set filepath=%~1

FOR /F "delims=\" %%L in ("%filepath%") DO set letter=%%L

FOR %%F in ("%filepath%") DO (

        set drive=%%~dF

        set filename=%%~nxF

)

FOR /F "tokens=1,2,3,4,5 delims=/: " %%T in ("%~t1") DO set filedate=%%V%%U%%T%%W%%X

%drive%

7z a -mx=7 -md=256m -mtc=on -mta=on "%filename% [%filedate%].7z" %1

pause

Tried this, same result:

Code:

chcp 1252

set filepath="%~1"

FOR %%F in (%filepath%) DO (

        set drive=%%~dF

        set filename=%%~nxF

)

FOR /F "tokens=1,2,3,4,5 delims=/: " %%T in ("%~t1") DO set filedate=%%V%%U%%T%%W%%X

%drive%

7z a -mx=7 -md=256m -mtc=on -mta=on "%filename% [%filedate%].7z" %filepath%

pause

If I simply put:

Code:

set filepath="%~1"

echo %filepath%

pause

with a test file named “12345,6789.txt" on a volume with letter W: I get:
"W:\12345" ]]> Computer abolibibelot https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/420286-Wrong-variable-expansion-with-names-having-a-comma-but-no-space-%5BWindows%5D 5 TB WD Easystore External Hard Drive cable trouble https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/420264-5-TB-WD-Easystore-External-Hard-Drive-cable-trouble?goto=newpost Sat, 21 Mar 2026 16:43:53 GMT This is the first WD drive I have bought in years and with the Seagate hard drives it has always been easy to plug this USB cable into the drive itself. With this I can't get the cable to go in the slot. I think I will beg Best Buy Canada to let me return it. ]]> Computer Tom Saurus https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/420264-5-TB-WD-Easystore-External-Hard-Drive-cable-trouble File Management Practices https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/420226-File-Management-Practices?goto=newpost Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:30:46 GMT I used the search tool here and saw many threads about all sorts of file management topics, mostly specific to filing videos and such. Perfectly normal for this site.

Here in the "Computer" section I saw this thrown up by a search just here:

https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/400162-Looking-for-a-solution-of-a-common-file-man...gement-problem

But I am looking to broaden the scope even further than that in the thread that link goes to.

Something like this link to an edu tagged site:

https://guides.lib.virginia.edu/RDM/file-management

I am looking for ideas on how any of you handle all your files on a given PC. txt, rtf, odt, mp3, mp4, everything not in the systems files that your OS designer set up as part of the original configuration that you probably don't mess with much.

I'm also wondering about ideas related to SSD/HDD/etc. files that may have accumulated over many years and is sort of mixed up. Maybe the better vocabulary is "messed up".

Any of you older folks from the U.S. or Canada remember that show, "Bewitched"? I'm sort of hoping somebody knows a not-so-expensive nose-twitching file manager that can magically get all my stuff nice and neatly packaged before my archives are sent off to the edu contracts I have for archiving my work over about 15 years or so.

Bottom line, I've pretty much lost control of my file system. Just wondering if any of y'all are facing the same trouble? Did face that, and fixed it? And such like that.

Thank you for ideas! ]]> Computer ProJiJi https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/420226-File-Management-Practices