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>>>when I run it again it does the same thing with the second file until all the files have been moved and processed
>>>
>>>Is that clearer - thanks for all your help
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>>Yes, this code process all files in that folder.
>>If you do not need all just remove cycle :-)
>>

>>lcFileName = SYS(2000,"c:\citisprint\sttach\*.*")
>>RENAME ("c:\citisprint\attach\"+lcFileName) TO ("c:\citisprint\attachxls\"+lcFileName)
>>

>>
>>But I'm still not sure what you mean by FIRST?
>>When I order files by name then first file is different than that when I ordered them by extension or by size.
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>I have say 10 files in the directory called attach
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>on day one for example when I run my code i want to move one of these files to the attachxls directorey with a filename of attach.xslx
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>I then convert this file to an xls file and process it - the are now only 9 files in the original attach directory
>
>On day 2 for example I want to do the same thing - with the first of the remaining 9 files

If you don't care which one will be moved, then this is the code :-)