Defining Environmental Variables

Environment variables are defined on a system-wide basis, or in the command line environment where Beyond Compare is called. BC does not have a way to define variables that are specific to it.

To change a variable system-wide, click the Windows Start menu and type "Environment". It should populate with various choices including "Edit the system environment variables" and "Edit the environment variables for your account". That will make them available for every program running on your computer or username.

To set them in a batch file, use: set BackupFilePath="C:\users\labuser\...."

You can see what variables are currently available by using the "set" command from the command line.

Once you have them set up correctly, BC can access them if you put a % before and after the variable name, like so: %BackupFilePath%

Zoe, thank you very much, this helps identify where to troubleshoot. BTW I love the BeyondCompare tool.