How to open multiple folders in a specific order using batch file? Windows 10

Currently I use the below script but it doesn't open the folders in the given order. It opens the folders in a random order.

@echo off
start explorer "Folder 1 Path"
start explorer "Folder 2 Path"
start explorer "Folder 3 Path"
start explorer "Folder 4 Path"

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4 Answers

You can use timeout command in middle of every command. Use timeout /t 2, if you want timeout to stay quiet, timeout /t 2 >nul. It should work. Just make your code like this:

@echo off
start explorer "Folder 1 Path"
timeout /t 2 >nul
start explorer "Folder 2 Path"
timeout /t 2 >nul
start explorer "Folder 3 Path"
timeout /t 2 >nul
start explorer "Folder 4 Path"

Thanks

Using a for loop listing in order would be...

@echo off
for %%i in ( "%UserProfile%\Desktop" "%UserProfile%\Documents" "%UserProfile%\Downloads" "%UserProfile%\Pictures" )do start "" "%%~i"

Chain it together on one line.

start "" "folder1"|start "" "folder2"|start "" "folder3"

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This is the .bat file content:

for /F "usebackq tokens=*" %%A in ("dirs.txt") do explorer %%A

• You need to create the file dirs.txt which contains the full path of the directories respectively

This is an example of "dirs.txt" file content:

C:\Users\User\Desktop\1
C:\Users\User\Desktop\2
C:\Users\User\Desktop\3
C:\Users\User\Desktop\New Folder

Edit1:

usebackq is used to handle folders with white spaces.

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