AdrianFRST

I have a Win 98 machine here with 20,000 emails as text files in a directory.

I need to move them into a users mailbox 100 or so at a time as the mail server can't handle the whole lot and crashes.

Windows locks when you try and open the directory.

I think a DOS batch file is the best way but I can't find away to only move a set number of files, not the whole lot.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Silent Monkey

I'm sure I did something very similar some time ago, can't find the file at the moment, may be on a system at home.

IIRC I used "dir /b > filename" to get a listing of the basic file names then used "for /F" to process that file line by line. "for /f" lets you specify number of lines to skip at start of file.

I find http://www.ss64.com/nt/index.html useful as a command reference (It's NT specific but most work on earlier versions and they often have notes re differences.)

Miles

Robocopy from the NT/W2K resource kits?

Check out q article 160513. Think in terms of time, not files.

If you need Robocopy, drop me a note.

AdrianFRST

Thanks for the help guys, a bit of time waiting for Windows to sort itself out and I was able to move them using Explorer.