Cannot delete?

[denisg]

Hi, I'm new to Irfanview Batch Conversions. Had Irfanview for years but usually use CS2 mainly and a couple of other progs but a friend thought he would make my life easier when he pointed out that this was indisputeably the best solution for my problem

In various folders I have a mix of jpg and tif files, the tif's I wish to convert to jpg's. So far so good

I am using batch convert and would like to do this in one operation so I tried using settings Options at 100% quality, Advanced with only "Delete original files after conversion" ticked. "Output directory for result files" is "Use current look-in directory".

OK, so this does work..............for a while, it converts the tif's to jpg's and removes the tif originals. Unfortunately, after completing a variable no. of files an error message pops up saying "Cannot delete - cannot read file or disk" and you have to click OK to continue on every file after that. Anyone know what's happening?

It's easy enough to save the converts to a temp file, delete the tif's in the original file and then replace them with the jpg's from the temp file without any errors at all. Bit time consuming though

Or, I am I missing something here..................

Denis.

[matera]

You could save the converted images to the same directory without deleting the originals and then sort by file type in order to select all one kind to delete. I can't say what is occurring with the "cannot read" business, except that there may be some sort of confusion as to what files have already been deleted - it sounds like it's trying to do some over again. Could be something about the way you select the files to process.

[denisg]

You could save the converted images to the same directory without deleting the originals and then sort by file type in order to select all one kind to delete. I can't say what is occurring with the "cannot read" business, except that there may be some sort of confusion as to what files have already been deleted - it sounds like it's trying to do some over again. Could be something about the way you select the files to process.

Thanks Matera but doing it the temp way is/was ok until I discovered that no matter what I ticked in the various settings, Irfanview wouldn't save the exif data so to complete this file conversion I have gone back to Acdsee, which does save the exif but adds thumbnail size pics as well!

Thanks anyway, most appreciated

Denis.