GS wrote:
Well, i am in a pickle.
Firstly, i did a bit of experimenting, and i discovers a few things.
1) The variable "tmp" is nice, but does not have to have the date and
time; that would fill the HD since i have thousands of files to process.

So you did not 'catch' that the tmp file is deleted when this line...

Kill tmp

..gets executed!

I know about that; i have been stepping thru the execution (F8), and
stop long before that.
Then i go to CMD prompt and check files and DEL *.* when appropriate
for next test.