Batch renaming files fails, error "the system cannot find file..."

Hi all,

I'm trying to rename files with batch file "bulkrename.bat", that is generated by a short program made with Visual Foxpro 9.0.

Here is the source code of Foxpro program:
TV recordings renamed with XML metadata tag
And here is generated "bulkrename.bat":

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RENAME "D:\Data\TV_Database\Test_data\Silmänräpäyksiä @ SE social_political issues_economics (general) - 2016-08-01-20_57 -Yle Fem.ts" "Silmänräpäyksiä @ (Sarjan lyhyet tietoiskumaiset elokuvat t...elevat maailman ilmiöitä lähikuvassa.) SE social_political issues_economics (general) - 2016-08-01-20_57 -Yle Fem.ts"

RENAME "D:\Data\TV_Database\Test_data\Silmänräpäyksiä @ SE social_political issues_economics (general) - 2016-08-01-20_57 -Yle Fem.xml" "Silmänräpäyksiä @ (Sarjan lyhyet tietoiskumaiset elokuvat t...elevat maailman ilmiöitä lähikuvassa.) SE social_political issues_economics (general) - 2016-08-01-20_57 -Yle Fem.xml"
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The batch file fails with error messages
"the system cannot find file specified"

However if I copy-paste individual command lines into Win7 Command Prompt windows, file renaming works just fine. What is the difference with batch window and Command Prompt window?

I tried to run batch file with Administrator rights with no luck.
Path + filename are max. 200 characters.
I also tried to manually remove characters like ( ) but that didn't help.

Welcome to the forum can you rename the file to .cmd instead of .bat there are differences see if it work then as it works with a cmd prompt. a .bat was for the old msdos 16 bit .cmd is for windows cmd

Renaming bulkrename.bat to bulkrename.cmd and running it made no difference. Same error message. But anyway thanks for the idea.

I did some detective work.

I shortened the command line like this:
RENAME "D:\Data\TV_Database\Test_data\Sil.ts" "Silmänräpäyksiä @ (Sarjan lyhyet tietoiskumaiset elokuvat t...elevat maailman ilmiöitä lähikuvassa.) SE social_political issues_economics (general) - 2016-08-01-20_57 -Yle Fem.ts"

And here is the result after renaming:
Silmõnrõpõyksiõ @ (Sarjan lyhyet tietoiskumaiset elokuvat t...elevat maailman ilmi÷itõ lõhikuvassa.) SE social_political issues_economics (general) - 2016-08-01-20_57 -Yle Fem.ts

WRONG CHARACTERS!

So I need to change the character set in the command window.
I added this line in the beginning of my batch file:
chcp 1252

Here is the result:
Silmänräpäyksiä @ (Sarjan lyhyet tietoiskumaiset elokuvat t...elevat maailman ilmiöitä lähikuvassa.) SE social_political issues_economics (general) - 2016-08-02-18_56 -Yle Fem.ts

CORRECT!
Problem solved.