Copying 400 Files Randomly from One Folder to Another?

[CarrieR]

Hello,
I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this question -- I apologize if not! I am also somewhat of a novice with all of this.

I have a folder of around 20,000 wav files, and I need to find a way to RANDOMLY extract 400 files from this folder into another, to use for analysis. Is there a way to do this within a cmd prompt, say within an xcopy command? Or is this something that perhaps can be done within an Access module? (Of course this is for a different forum.)

Thanks for any help any of you might be able to provide!

Carrie

[harshadd]

[QUOTE=CarrieR]Hello,
I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this question -- I apologize if not! I am also somewhat of a novice with all of this.

I have a folder of around 20,000 wav files, and I need to find a way to RANDOMLY extract 400 files from this folder into another, to use for analysis. Is there a way to do this within a cmd prompt, say within an xcopy command? Or is this something that perhaps can be done within an Access module? (Of course this is for a different forum.)

Thanks for any help any of you might be able to provide!

Hello, I will try, provide me following info:
ur OS ?
is .wav files are having any perticular naming convention?
for eg..
feefoo001.way
feefoo002.way
feefoo003.way ... and so on?? or any names >?
does the names are having some relation with the contains of wav file?

If renaming ur files is allowed then I have a solution for you..
Rgds
HND (ie HarshadD)