I usually like the daily pictures Microsoft sends me, so I made a simple script to make it faster to copy them into a new folder. It leaves the original untouched so your background doesn't get messed up. There are several utilities to automatically change your wallpaper daily, such as this one: htt...

Loop, Parse, clipboard, 'n,

What a relief. A big thank you to everyone who helped. Either I wouldn't have figured it out without you guys, or it would have taken weeks instead of days. This does nothing: FileCopy, %A_LoopFilePath%, C:\2 sounds copied\%counter%.%A_LoopFileExt% This produces empty files: FileCopy, C:\2 sounds\%A...

FileCopy, %A_LoopFilePath%, C:\3 docs copied\%counter%.%A_LoopFileExt%

this does nothing,

Also message box tells me %A_LoopFilePath% is blank, should that happen?

gregster wrote: ↑

24 Jan 2020, 05:05

Try to replace C:\2 sounds\*.mp3 in the FileCopy line with %A_LoopFilePath%:

FileCopy, %A_LoopFilePath%\*.*, C:\3 docs copied\%counter%.%A_LoopFileExt%

This produces properly named empty files (0 bytes).

I think C:\2 sounds\*.mp3 will, in this case, always just match - and use - the first matching file, every loop iteration again, so that you end up with the same audio or text or whatever, just with different names But if that's true why would the message box tell me it's about to use the proper fi...

I just tried it with 3 text files. It does the same thing. All are named as expected, but all are the first file.

I'm freaking out because yesterday this worked perfectly, but for the past 6 hours it doesn't work. counter := 15 Loop, Files, C:\2 sounds\*.mp3, F { MsgBox, 262144, , (LTrim About to copy sound named "%A_LoopFileName%" New name will be "%counter%.%A_LoopFileExt%" ) FileCopy, C:\2 sounds\*.mp3, C:\2...

Okay I figured it out. The solution was quite simple. It dawned on me that the problem may not lie with StringGetPos being inside file loops. I thought maybe it had something to do with it not working with A_LoopFileName. When I set a variable equal to A_LoopFileName and used it instead, it works pe...

Using InStr() TLM, first of all, thank you very much . I appreciate your knowledge and time. But I wasn't asking how to use InStr, I was asking what you would do if you couldn't. There is no InStr in Macro Creator. Instead it uses the outdated StringGetPos. “Deprecated: This command is not recommen...

just me wrote: ↑

23 Jan 2020, 10:35

[/code]are you sure about L12?

No I'm not sure, but I was experimenting. The result is always -1, no matter if it's L12 or L-anything or left blank.

Here's a visual:

I'm using Pulover's Macro Creator, and it has no option to use InStr. I realize I'm not supposed to be using StringGetPos anymore, but I must find the position of a character. StringGetPos works perfectly every time I don't use it in a loop, but It always returns -1 in a file loop. I posted this in ...

"Deprecated: This command is not recommended for use in new scripts. Use the InStr function instead." I must get the position of a character (a hyphen in this case) in a string, but StringGetPos doesn't work. It always returns -1 no matter what. There is no option for InStr in Macro Creator. What d...

ToolbarWindow323 is the name for the control that is the address bar in Windows Explorer on my computer. If I point to that in a script will it be the same name for all users of Windows 10? How about other versions of Windows?