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what happens when you try the setup with files that do not "@" or any other non-alphanumeric characters?

I do not see an error message in the linked png.
Seems to me that you would want to do the mogrify after the renaming , not before.
wonder if the characters "/@" is causing trouble. Think you meant "\@" .
does "@" require escaping when using Windows?

hi Fred (or any other admin), can the "Argh" reply i gave at the original post be moved over to here? It got posted before I saw the "split" message. thanks.

All windows versions have the convert command. I have never had a problem as I have always let Imagemagick add the path to the environmental variables on install. I think the problem comes when people prevent Imagemagick doing that.

But it is a good point to raise this again ceepea so others will ...

at first this was going to be a "WT?" post but I discovered the problem. Still going to post it in case others come across the issue of convert not seeming to work from the command line.

Windows7 has a built in 'convert' command, so you need to either specify the full path to the IM convert or ...

ARGH!!!! Found the problem, do not know if this is in a FAQ but hopefully others will see this.

Wrong "convert" program was running.
The built in "convert" of Win7 which converts file systems was being run, not the IM convert.
When i specified the path to the IM convert, image creation worked fine ...

hmm, i'm going to start a new topic as i can't get a batch file to work when parenthesis are tried.

I don't have dropbox and using a *nix machine is not an option for this job.

hi. trying the first option, i got error message Invalid Parameter - ( taking a closer look, i saw that there was no space after the "^" on line 1. put it in , but then i got error message of Invalid drive specification.
-swap was unexpected at this time. So I made sure there was a space after each ...

I have a very similiar situation, need to create a fax tiff image from a standard image to a different file name, but only change the first page. I am having problems with the syntax, trying to do the clone and replace suggestion. Using Windows Version: ImageMagick 6.8.8-5 Q8 x86 2014-02-08
convert ...