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My scripting husband travels a great deal with his job, and he takes these really cool pictures. Unfortunately, he is somewhat lazy about downloading the pictures from the camera. As a result, we have pictures from Hawaii that are named Phoenix_Desert_05.jpg. Obviously, I know the difference between a desert and a beach, but it is rather annoying...

I want to use SharePoint for our company’s script library, but it will not allow us to upload a VBScript file. It accepts PS1 files just fine, but we still have quite a few VBScripts and we need to keep a central repository of them. We have decided to rename them from .vbs files to .txt files so that we can keep them in SharePoint. I know I can w...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a file that I would like to copy a number of times. This file is basically a template. I have an Excel spreadsheet that contains a list of names that I would like to use for the newly copied files. Can you help me?- PR Hi PR, Sorry, I’m having another music flashback. I am sitting here listening to The Kingston Trio sin...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I create a file name from the date? I have this application that creates a log file, and every hour I would like to save that log file as a file whose name is generated from the current time stamp. Can this be done?- RH Hi RH, Ever since I read your e-mail message, I have had this old Rolling Stones tune stuck in my h...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a USB drive that I use for backup purposes on my computer. Because it appears that Windows Vista does not have a backup program that I can use, I thought it would be useful to write a script using Windows PowerShell to back up the computer. To make things simple, I have all my data in a folder called "data." I only want...