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I'm curious how you pros would handle this "want" of mine:

I very routinely have to collect log files from a specific directory on several remote computers. Basically if a certain program fails, I need to go to that computer and grab some specific log files.

The computer names are fairly cryptic, so most users as well as myself only know the computer by the workstation number: 5601, 5644, etc.

I want to make a script where I can just enter the 4 digit common name, then the script would use the UNC path to the actual spot where the logs are, such as \\ncdsp-10202\c$\programdata\anotherlevel\logs\

Right now I'm handling it with substitutions like ::5601::\\ncdsp-10103\etc and manually opening windows explorer, clicking in the address bar and using the sub, but I'd prefer to make a little gui or something for it where I could enter the 4 digit code and the script would use some kind of table or something to get the right variable to go open in explorer.exe.

The alternative would be to have a different function for each and every workstation which doesn't seem as efficient as a simple table I could add to as we expand.

How would you do it?

I'd do it with AutoHotkey_L and Arrays...

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Autofire, AutoClick, Toggle, Spam • Window Control Tools
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I appreciate the quick reply, but it seems when I installed ahk_L it broke my other scripts and I'm not savvy enough to fix them

I'll have to figure out a way to do it semi efficiently with normal AHK unfortunately.

Thanks though!

AHK Basic? Hmm...

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Hrm, this seems to work well but I'm getting an error when I adjust it to try to open windows explorer to the folder I want.

I changed the msgbox line to run, explorer.exe % List%num% and it says: The following variable name contains an illegal character: " List".

I'm sure I'm just abusing what the run command is looking for compared to the msgbox command though. Need to find how I can use the List variable in other commands

I was forcing an Expression

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Thanks a lot Nimda, this is working great. Now I'm tweaking it trying to make it a GUI with options to download the log and place it right on the local desktop.