Renaming large number of files...out of space

[doomer]

I am trying to rename a large number of files which should be moving them to a new folder;

X:/Movies/{n} ({y})/{n} ({y}){' CD'+pi}

When I run it, windows tells me I am out of room on my target drive. The target drive is the same as the source drive. Is it not possible to rename files and folders on a (mostly) full drive?

I also receive a lot of "duplicate destination path" errors. Am I doing something wrong?

[rednoah]

Move/Rename operations should be instant and won't take more/less disk space because the physical data, as long as files are on the same filesystem.

What's the original path of one of these movies? Have you tried processing a single one? Does it move instantly? What happens if you do the same on a local drive (e.g. files on your desktop).

If files are not moved instantly, then that means that the source path and the destination path are not on the same filesystem or drive.

[doomer]

Thanks! The issue was I transposed drive letters. That sorted it out, thanks for the quick response!