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I don't think this is a bug, XCOPY just thinks you are trying to copy a file called C:\demo with no file extension. To tell it this is a directory, you need to add a trailing backslash. When using Robocopy there is no need for a trailing space because robocopy is centered around copying a whole dire...

I think the problem here is that your filename includes a close parenthesis ')'

Unless enclosed in quotes, the CMD shell is not clever enough to realise that is part of the filename and instead acts like you are closing the parenthesis opened a couple of lines above.

If you are testing the snippet at the command line, you will need to change the %%f to just %f

To troubleshoot this you could try putting an ECHO before the "C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe"
so you can see what it is passing to 7z.

I don't think you need that asterisk after the "F:\client_1\"

It could be that MMC.exe is relaunching as either a 32 or 64 bit process
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previo ... 3(v=vs.85)

Thanks, I have added that to the RUNAS example now, I don't know why the START is needed, perhaps someone else can explain it?

@workablob, from your email address it looks very much like you may in fact be David Kendrick the author of copyrite xp and you have been spamming this identical message around multiple IT forums which mention robocopy, it is not a good look. Also the website for copyrite xp is currently down, so ma...

Assuming you have the full path/filename, then use Parameter Extensions to split out just the filename, or filename+extension.

Then to get the length use Strlen

If this is to represent a password, it is worth considering do you really need to represent the right number of characters? Hiding the length of a password is generally good security, then you can just display a fixed line of *******'s OTOH if this is something like a username or email address, then...

OK that's done, I also added a couple of alternatives