Prompt Title: Windows 10: Set star rating on all files in a folder (Edit the final code block as necessary)

Sure, I can help you with that. Here is the batch file text that you can use:

bashCopy code
@echo off
setlocal

set "folder=C:\Users\FTC\Pictures"

for %%a in ("%folder%\*") do (
    if /I "%%~xa"==".jpg" (
        echo Setting rating of "%%~na%%~xa" to 4 stars
        powershell.exe -Command "(New-Object -ComObject shell.application).Namespace(0).ParseName('%%~fa').ExtendedProperty('System.Rating', '4')"
    )
)

echo All photos in %folder% have been rated 4 stars.
pause

Save the text above into a file with a .bat extension, for example, set-rating.bat.

Here's how the script works:

• The setlocal command is used to ensure that any environment variable changes made by the script are kept local to the script execution context and don't affect the system.
• The set "folder=C:\Users\FTC\Pictures" command sets the folder variable to the folder path that you specified.
• The for loop iterates through all files in the folder specified by the folder variable. The %%~xa variable is used to get the file extension, and the if statement is used to ensure that only files with a .jpg extension are processed.
• The echo command displays the name of the file being processed.
• The powershell.exe command is used to set the rating of the file to 4 stars. The ExtendedProperty method of the ShellFolderItem object is used to set the System.Rating property to 4. Note that the script uses PowerShell to set the rating because there is no built-in command-line tool to set the rating of a file in Windows.
• The echo command displays a message indicating that all photos have been rated 4 stars.
• The pause command is used to keep the command prompt window open until you press a key, so that you can see the output of the script.

I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any questions.

Sure! Here's the modified batch file that sets the rating of all files in the specified folder to 4 stars:

bashCopy code
@echo off
setlocal

set "folder=C:\Users\FTC\Pictures"

for %%a in ("%folder%\*") do (
    echo Setting rating of "%%~na%%~xa" to 4 stars
    powershell.exe -Command "(New-Object -ComObject shell.application).Namespace(0).ParseName('%%~fa').ExtendedProperty('System.Rating', '4')"
)

echo All files in %folder% have been rated 4 stars.
pause

The changes made to the original script are:

• The if statement that checks for the .jpg extension has been removed.
• The echo command that displays the name of the file being processed has been moved outside of the if statement so that it displays for all files.
• The script now sets the rating for all files using the same powershell.exe command.

I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any questions.

I apologize for the inconvenience. It seems that the ExtendedProperty method of the ShellFolderItem object requires a slightly different syntax to work correctly.

Please try this modified batch file that sets the rating of all files in the specified folder to 4 stars:

bashCopy code
@echo off
setlocal

set "folder=C:\Users\FTC\Pictures"

for %%a in ("%folder%\*") do (
    echo Setting rating of "%%~na%%~xa" to 4 stars
    powershell.exe -Command "(Get-Item '%%~fa').ExtendedProperties.Item('System.Rating').Value = 4"
)

echo All files in %folder% have been rated 4 stars.
pause

The changes made to the original script are:

• The ExtendedProperty method has been replaced with the ExtendedProperties.Item property and the .Value property has been added to set the value of the rating property to 4.
• The Get-Item cmdlet is used to retrieve the FileInfo object of the file being processed, which is

I apologize for the inconvenience. It seems that the error occurs because PowerShell is unable to retrieve the ExtendedProperties collection for some of the files.

Please try this modified batch file that sets the rating of all files in the specified folder to 4 stars:

bashCopy code
@echo off
setlocal

set "folder=C:\Users\FTC\Pictures"

for %%a in ("%folder%\*") do (
    echo Setting rating of "%%~na%%~xa" to 4 stars
    powershell.exe -Command "(New-Object -ComObject Shell.Application).Namespace(0).ParseName('%%~fa').InvokeVerb('Properties').Item('System.Rating').Value = 4"
)

echo All files in %folder% have been rated 4 stars.
pause

The changes made to the original script are:

• The Get-Item cmdlet is replaced with the Namespace(0).ParseName() method to retrieve the ShellFolderItem object of the file being processed.
• The InvokeVerb method is used to open the file properties dialog, which is then used to access the System.Rating property.
• The .Value property has been added to set the value of the rating property to 4.

I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any questions.

I apologize for the confusion. It appears that the previous modification still failed to properly retrieve the ShellFolderItem object for some files.

Here is another version of the batch file that should correctly set the rating of all files in the specified folder to 4 stars:

bashCopy code
@echo off
setlocal

set "folder=C:\Users\FTC\Pictures"

for %%a in ("%folder%\*") do (
    echo Setting rating of "%%~na%%~xa" to 4 stars
    powershell.exe -Command "$folder = (New-Object -ComObject Shell.Application).Namespace(0); $item = $folder.ParseName('%%~na%%~xa'); if ($item) { $item.ExtendedProperty('System.Rating', '4') }"
)

echo All files in %folder% have been rated 4 stars.
pause

The changes made to the original script are:

• A PowerShell script block is used to assign the ShellFolder object to the $folder variable, and then use the ParseName method to retrieve the ShellFolderItem object for the file being processed.
• An if statement is used to check if $item is not null before setting the rating.

I hope this version works for you. Let me know if you have any further questions or issues.

Glad to hear that it is working! If you have any further questions or issues, feel free to ask.