fenningenarius

That worked! Thank you so much for your help. I went into 'folder options'>'file types'>'file folder' and added a new action which runs that batch file. Now I can right click on any folder and select that action and it makes my 3 folders. I am really excited, this is going to save me a LOT of time. I really appreciate your help, thank you so much. -will

I'm not really sure. Like I said I'm not very familiar with this kind of stuff. I have another batch file that I wrote that opens a program called shntool.exe which is used to analzye .wav files - it is my only experience with batch files so far. The way that it works is that I went into Tools>Folder Options>File Types and clicked on .wav files, then I added a new action to be associated with .wav files and in the "application to perform this action" field I entered the path to my batch file. I named the action "shntool". Now when I right-click on any wav file there is an item in the list called "shntool". If I click on that it runs the batch file on all the files in that folder. I was thinking that this could work in a similar way except that it could be associated with "file folder" or "folder". That way I could right-click on folders in windows explorer and there would be a new action which would create the subfolders for me. If this is not possible then forgive me for wasting your time. It would just save me so much time if I could get something like this to work but I don't really know how to do it. Thanks so much for your help, I really appreciate it.

Hello, I am trying to write a batch file that will create subfolders based on the name of the parent folder (I'm running windows xp). So if the folder that I am working in is named "dg2001-10-19" then I want the batch file to create 3 subfolders named "dg2001-10-19 - WTA", "dg2001-10-19 - BHMM" and "dg2001-10-19 - files". In the other folders that I am working in I want it to work the same way - for a folder named "disc" it would create "disc - WTA", "disc - BHMM" and "disc - files" and place them in the disc folder. If anyone can help me I would really appreciate it. I realize that this is probably a simple thing but I am not very familiar with programming or batch files. Thank you very much for your help.