====== Keeping your temporary documents organized ======

I do a lot of temporary documents: just elaborate them to send them by email, or analyze them (log files), extract conclusions (drop them in a word document) and therefore send them back by email. These things creates a lot of files that only need to be kept some days. 

To save them, I developed the following method: I have a temp dir --let's say ''c:\temp''-- and inside I create a directory with the name of the date ''01'', ''02'', etc. to save temporary work in a manner more or less organized. 

The problem arises when downloading files from internet or uploading files in my email client: I have always to change the location of the files: picking ''c:\temp\02'' instead of ''c:\temp\01'' and so one. 

To solve this, I've created a ''tmp'' program. This program: 

  * check for existence of the dir ''c:\temp\now'', and if it is not found, creates it
  * if exists, check if it is older (date saved different from today's date)
  * if it is, it will be moved to the proper day (if it was created on 12/01, it will be moved to the ''1'' directory despite we are in 12/07)

===== Source code of batch file ===== 

<code dos>
rem @echo off

set temp=c:\temp
set destdir=c:\temp\now
set token=c:\temp\now\.token

if exist %token% goto file_exists_move_dir

:create_dir_save_token

rem if dir exist, skip creation and save date 
if exist %destdir% goto skip_dir_creation

mkdir %destdir%

date /t  > %token%

:skip_dir_creation 

goto end

:file_exists_move_dir

rem try to read content of temp\now\.token 
for /f "tokens=1,2,3 delims=/" %%i in (%token%) do set saved_day=%%i

rem read current day
for /f "tokens=1,2,3 delims=/ " %%a in ('date /t') do set cur_day=%%a

if %cur_day% == %saved_day% goto skip_renaming

rem move directory %destdir% to %saved_day%
rename %destdir% %saved_day%

:skip_renaming

goto create_dir_save_token

:end

rem hemos acabao, abrir explorador en %destdir%
start "Explorer" "%windir%\explorer.exe" %destdir%

</code>