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Posted: **Sat Mar 02, 2024 5:06 pm**

Hi all

As I'm trying to use nconvert within a btach file under windows, I'm facing a problem using relative paths.
Here it is :

Initial directory structure

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- originals
    - family
        - doe
              file.jpg
        - smith
    - friends
- web

I just want to resize every file in the whole originals directory structure and put the results in web directory reproducing the directory structure.
So I use this commande line in a batch file :

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for /f %%I in ('forfiles /s /m *.* /c "cmd /c echo @relpath"') do nconvert  -ratio -rtype lanczos -rflag decr -rflag orient -resize 1920 1200 %%~I -o "..\web\%%~I"

It looks good but when executing it i face a message

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Error : Can't open file (-o)
Error : can't open file (..\web\.\family\doe\file.jpg)

I just copy one line command which is a result like :

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nconvert  -ratio -rtype lanczos -rflag decr -rflag orient -resize 1920 1200 .\family\doe\file.jpg -o "..\web\.\family\doe\file.jpg"

Am I missing something ?

Thanks in advance

Posted: **Sun Mar 03, 2024 10:36 am**

Hi all

I was missing something...
My command line is :

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nconvert  -ratio -rtype lanczos -rflag decr -rflag orient -resize 1920 1200 %%~I -o "..\web\%%~I"

But nconvert command line should be

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nconvert options file

So my command line is treated as if `-o "..\web\%%i"` should be 2 files to be processed..

So putting the command line members in right order and everything is ok.

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nconvert  -ratio -rtype lanczos -rflag decr -rflag orient -resize 1920 1200 -o "..\web\%%~I" %%~I

Sorry this mistake.

Posted: **Sun Mar 03, 2024 7:07 pm**

Welsh wrote: Sun Mar 03, 2024 10:36 am I was missing something...

My command line is :
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nconvert  -ratio -rtype lanczos -rflag decr -rflag orient -resize 1920 1200 %%~I -o "..\web\%%~I"
But nconvert command line should be
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nconvert options file
So my command line is treated as if `-o "..\web\%%i"` should be 2 files to be processed..

Thanks for reporting back!

I have always used the order shown, but didn't question your order as I have recently been wondering if it was actually needed, and as far as I know it is not formally documented.

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