One of your problems seems to be 
'C:\\temp'

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you do not need to escape backslashes in strings enclosed in single-quotes; I may be wrong, though, I'm windows free since 2.5 years now.

On another note: If the program exits with such a clear error-message, believe what it says and try to debug it the old way: just print out where you are and what the variable-values are.
You'll see that your understanding of what programming is and what programs you've written actualy do, increases a lot if you take a closer look yourself.

As a second note:
The programm seems to be overly complicated for such a simple task, maybe you should google around a bit on this subject; learning by doing is a Good Thing(TM), but The-Right-Tool-For-The-Right-Job(tm) too ;-)

Now to the solution: Change line ~43 

    } elsif (rename "$newdir/$get_files", "$newdir/$newfile") {

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hth,
regards,
tomte

In reply to Re: Renaming Files by Tomte
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