Rename files in a folder

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  1. I am having many different files in one directory with different extensions(pdf, xlsx, jpg) etc…
  2. I need to read the filenames from the folder. Rename the filenames with “_success” Extension for the name.
  3. how to perform this action dynamically.
    Think files are in Input folder and destination files should be output folder.

Thanks in advance

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Hi @bbysani,
Welcome to the forum

In Assign activity, please do this:

  1. Create a variable that is an Array of String (String). Let’s say arrFiles as the variable name
  2. In the Assign activity,
    arrFiles = Directory.GetFiles("folderPath", "*.*")
  3. Use For Each activity to loop through the array
  4. Inside body of For Each use Copy File activity

for details regarding Copy File activity visit the following link:
https://activities.uipath.com/docs/copy-file

Hope it helps

Regards

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  1. Add a For Each activity with the inputFile as For Clause and Directory.GetFiles(“inputFolderPath”, “.”) as in Clause.
For each inputFile in Directory.GetFiles("inputFolderPath", "*.*")
  1. Inside that for each use the Copy Activity with the below properties.
    Source : inputFile
    destination : “outputFolderPath” + path.getFilzeameWithoutExtension(inputFile) + “_success”+path.getExtension(inputFile)
    That’s it.

Thanks for posting here.

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Thanks much, This helped and able to get the desired output.

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Thanks for the link and command.

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Please accept the solution if you are happy with it

Regards,
Karthikeyan Ramamoorthy

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Hello,
In this video I do a lot of stuff with Files (Chapter included) :

1:10 Download the file and Move the latest file to folders
4:30 Rename files with VB commands
6:00 Move files to do Rename
6:55 Delete files
8:15 Delete only PNG files
8:55 Delete all the files except PNG files
9:55 Move files
11:10 Delete files that are older than 2 weeks
14:40 Create a file or folder with dates inside

Thanks,
Cristian Negulescu