> Is there any easy way to create an empty file with the same name
> (but different extension) to an existing file?
>
> I ask as my old video viewer used to make a sidecar file (actually with
> resume info in it) when I watched videos I'd shot, so it was easy to see
> which ones I'd looked at from possibly quite a bunch of new ones. The
> new viewer doesn't, but changing attributes is no use as my video editor
> won't show them, but it would show a sidecar file.

I create empty files for batch routines this way:

CALL>D:\Folder\Filename.ext