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--- windows:keepingtempworkorganized [2011/12/29 10:50] – creado rlunaro
+++ windows:keepingtempworkorganized [2022/12/02 21:02] (current) – external edit 127.0.0.1
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+====== 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>