Script timesout in the middle of execution - vbscript

Question

I wrote a small script to help re-organize my .mp3 collection. When I run this script, sometimes it will process several thousand files till it would hit an error condition (normally a move of a file that had a special character in its name/path that I hadn't counted for), but it would often exit the script with the text
Script execution time was exceeded on script "C:\DevSpace\mp3move.vbs".
Script execution was terminated.
Im not sure why this is happening. In an effort to figure out where this occured I added several msgbox lines, and what I found is that a msgbox would popup, but then it would auto-close very quickly.
Here is the code - i appoligize for not getting the formatting correctly in the forum
'Takes all .MP3 files in the source dir, reads the Artist tag associated with that file
'Checks for a dir named after the artist in the destination dir
'If the folder artist/album does not exists, it will create it
'Then move the .mp3 file to the dest dir
Dim oAppShell, oFSO, oFolder, oFolderItems
Dim strPath, i
Dim sInfo
iDebug=0
sInfo = "Item Description"
strPath = "K:\_preprocess"
sDestination = "K:\Music"
Set oAppShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
Set oFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
If not oFSO.FolderExists(strPath) Then
WScript.Echo "Folder " & strPath & " is inaccessble"
End If
Set oFolder = oAppShell.NameSpace(strPath)
Set oFolderItems = oFolder.Items()
sCreate = ""
sExist = ""
sMoved = ""
If (not oFolderItems is nothing) Then
if oFolderItems.Count = 0 then
Wscript.echo "no files found in this folder: " & strPath
WScript.Quit
end If
If iDebug = 1 Then
i = oFolderItems.count
WScript.Echo i
End If
For Each oItem in oFolderItems
If iDebug = 1 Then
i = i - 1
End If
If oItem.Type = "MP3 audio file (mp3)" or oItem.Type = "MP3 Format Sound (.mp3)"_
Or oItem.Type = "Windows Media Audio file" or oItem.Type = "MP3 Format Sound" then
'get artist name
sArtist = oFolder.GetDetailsOf(oItem, 20)
If iDebug = 1 Then
MsgBox oItem.name
MsgBox sArtist
End If
'if 'The Beatles' change to 'Beatles, the'
If InStr(LCase(sArtist),"the") = 1 Then
sArtist = Mid(sArtist,5) & ", the"
End If
'remove \ from band name
If InStr(sArtist,"\") > 0 Then
sArtist = Replace(sAlbum,"\","")
End If
If InStr(sArtist,"/") > 0 Then
sArtist = Replace(sAlbum,"/","")
End If
If iDebug = 1 Then
MsgBox sArtist
End If
'if folder does not exist create
'MsgBox sDestination & "\" & sArtist
If oFSO.FolderExists(sDestination & "\" & sArtist) Then
'MsgBox "EXIST"
sExist = sExist & sDestination & "\" & sArtist & " exists" & vbCrLf
Else
'MsgBox "CREATE " & sDestination & "\" & sArtist
rtn = oFSO.CreateFolder(sDestination & "\" & sArtist)
sCreate = sCreate & sDestination & "\" & sArtist & " created" & vbCrLf
End If
'get album name
sAlbum = oFolder.GetDetailsOf(oItem, 14)
'remove special characters from album name
If InStr(sAlbum,":") > 0 Then
sAlbum = Replace(sAlbum,":","")
End if
If InStr(sAlbum,"?") > 0 Then
sAlbum = Replace(sAlbum,"?","")
End If
If InStr(sAlbum,"...") > 0 Then
sAlbum = Replace(sAlbum,"...","")
End If
If InStr(sAlbum,"/") > 0 Then
sAlbum = Replace(sAlbum,"/","")
End If
If InStr(sAlbum,"\") > 0 Then
sAlbum = Replace(sAlbum,"\","")
End If
'create dir artist/album
If oFSO.FolderExists (sDestination & "\" & sArtist & "\" & sAlbum) Then
'sExist = sExist & sDestination & "\" & sArtist & sAlbum & " exists" & vbCrLf
Else
'MsgBox sDestination & "\" & sArtist & "\" & sAlbum
rtn = oFSO.CreateFolder (sDestination & "\" & sArtist & "\" & sAlbum)
'sCreate = sCreate & sDestination & "\" & sArtist & " created" & vbCrLf
End If
'move file
sSource = strPath & "\" & oItem.name & ".mp3"
sDest = sDestination & "\" & sArtist & "\" & sAlbum & "\"
If iDebug=1 Then
MsgBox sSource & vbCrLf & sDest
End If
If oFSO.FileExists (sSource) Then
oFSO.MoveFile sSource, sDest
'sMoved = sMoved & sSource & " moved to " & sDest & vbcrlf
'MsgBox smoved
Else
MsgBox sSource & " not moved"
End If
End If
If iDebug = 1
WScript.Sleep 1000
WScript.Echo i
End If
Next
If iDebug=1
WScript.Echo i
End if
'MsgBox sCreate
'MsgBox sExist
'MsgBox sMoved
End If

Answer 1

You should set the WScript.Timeout property to a higher value.
See example here

Answer 2

The problem existed with my input files. Some of the .mp3 files I was using to test with had non-ascii characters in the tags, and that caused the program to freeze