I have put together some external scripting that rewrites Right side values so that I can dynamically change the destination folder based on the project I'm working on. The folder ends up on the Desktop, and its name ends up as some variation of
PROJECT-TITLE_ROOM-NUMBER_%Date%
. All of that works great, and FFS keeps up with the changes and sets things where they should be. So for example
SMOKE_VJR5_2025-06-10
on one day vs
BUCCANEERS_VJR2_2025-06-08
on another.
The complication I run into is that I need to make external backups - historically the Folder has been named
JOB-TODAY_%Date%
, so I had just directed that folder from the desktop to an external volume by using that string in an ffs_batch. Now that the folders are dynamically named, I can't figure out how to program a batch file that will always grab the contents of the folder that was made same day (while ignoring all other files and folders on the desktop). I've tried fiddling with Exclude filters and the Date macro (I'll always be running the backup same day, so I thought that would be the key), but I understand that Macros won't expand within filters.
Is there another way to make this work dynamically?
