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Hi there,

I am using the desktop application and I a just started figuring out and testing how I could integrate this in our company.
One of the automated flows our Marketing division needs is to copy 1 picture to many copies in the same folder. Preferably with a possibility to choose the number of copies through a message box.

The copy-names are less important because afterwords they will be automatically renamed in another application.

Example
So we have 1 image in 1 folder:
- PR23.jpg in Folder (Fex. C:\Temp Images)

In the same folder (C:\Temp Images) I would like to generate this:
- PR23.jpg
- PR23_1.jpg
- PR23_2.jpg
- PR23_3.jpg
- PR23_4.jpg
- PR23_5.jpg
- ...and so on depending on the number of copies needed (previously inserted in a message box).

I have tried copying files but there are only 2 possibilities if a file already exists:
1. Do nothing
2. Overwrite

Is this even possible with PAD ? Can anyone get me in the right direction here ?

Your help would be seriously appreciated.

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mahoneypat 1,720 on at

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I haven't tried this in PAD, but in a Cloud Flow this could be done by making an array of numbers and then iterating over that array with a Create File action in each iteration that incorporated the current array value in the name. I assume same would be possible in PAD.
Regards,
Pat
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Hello Pat,

Thanks to your idea of creating an array of random numbers and (mostly) by trial and error(s) I managed to make it work. Looping by the number of times inserted in a message box it works just great.

Have a nice day,
David