Directory crawling program that lists titles of folders, subfolders, and file names?

[Raswan]

Looking for some freeware that I can aim at a directory and have it crawl through and list all the titles of folders, titles of subfolders, and file names in there. And show what is nested under what. The output list can be a word or text file, or even just a hi-rez zoomable jpeg. If it includes things like modified date and time, file size, that's a plus. Ideas?

Thanks!

 

[jolancer]

command prompt is free

dir /s /b "C:\directory" >"C:\destination\example.txt"

 

[corkyg]

Preferring a little more sophistication, I use ZTreeWin. It doesn't crawl, but gives all info on clicks.

 

[Raswan]

Preferring a little more sophistication, I use ZTreeWin. It doesn't crawl, but gives all info on clicks.

Thanks, never heard of this utility before. I could just expand all the folders and subfolders and take a screenshot, but the problem is that the folder contains something like 125 subfolders and 2200 files. So that's too big to display on one screen. I could take multiple pictures and stitch them together, but that seems like it's more complicated than it should be.

 

[Raswan]

command prompt is free

dir /s /b "C:\directory" >"C:\destination\example.txt"

hmm. I'm sorry, you're going to have to be a little more explicit. I know how to open the command window. And I can replace these pathnames on my own. But that's about it. The exact punctuation and spaces are throwing me off.

 

[jolancer]

noprob if your new to commands

what i think might be throwing you off. is the "quotes"... you actually keep those, you don't need to if your directory names contain NO spaces, but most peoples do, and its safe to use them for directory names all the time anyway. so just type them as is. all of it as is except your directory path names and drive letters ofcourse.

since im posting again:
would of mentioned this but figured your not using anything pre win7, so wouldnt work
http://nikkhokkho.sourceforge.net/static.php?page=XPlorer

then i remembered this site, and this may work the best for your task
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897332
click on the file and disk utility link on the left to browse there list if that doesnt suit your task, but sounds like it might
i never used either of those so checkm out

of course the cmd is quickest and easyest way to just get a full list, but i mention the above incase its not the format your looking for. note- simply typing HELP in the prompt gives you a list of common commands, and typing /? after any command gives you the list of perameters for that command for dos

EDIT: just noticed you want the output in txt or image format, dunno if any of those programs are able to do that, i never used them..

 

[sweenish]

I prefer the tree command in the command prompt.

 

[gitano]

i like treesize, can print reports from any folders or subfolders

http://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/
http://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/screenshots.shtml

 

[Ketchup]

I think WinDirStat would be good for this. It shows subfolder usage of parent folder as you go down, all the way to files (click plus as you go, so it can go as long or short as you like). It's fun to look at, but I haven't found a really valuable reason to use it. yet.

 

[Raswan]

Super appreciate the suggestions guys. I messed around with WinDrStat for awhile (even ebfore posting here) and couldn't get an output that I liked. Hadn't heard of treesize, I'll check it out. I ended up mentioning this problem to a computer programmer friend, and he whipped up a crawler early this evening.

I said to him: "I need a program where: I get the exe. I install it. I open the program. I choose the directory I want to have the program crawl. It does it's magic, and outputs an html file (or zoomable jpeg or even word doc) that I can save to my desktop. I send that file as an attachment to my dissertation committee. When they open it in browser/dl and open it, it opens what, to them, looks like a web page. In that web page, they will be able to click on any folder/subfolder, and it will expand all the way down to file level with the names of all my files in that directory. But they can't modify anything, and they shouldn't have to install any extra plugins, blah blah. These people are mostly old and don't get computers that well."

And he's like, two hours later, "Here you go bud. Let me know if you run into any problems." And it works like magic. Glorious.

 

[XavierMace]

i like treesize, can print reports from any folders or subfolders

http://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/
http://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/screenshots.shtml

I second TreeSize. GetFolderSize is also good.

 

[BlueWeasel]

Super appreciate the suggestions guys. I messed around with WinDrStat for awhile (even ebfore posting here) and couldn't get an output that I liked. Hadn't heard of treesize, I'll check it out. I ended up mentioning this problem to a computer programmer friend, and he whipped up a crawler early this evening.

I said to him: "I need a program where: I get the exe. I install it. I open the program. I choose the directory I want to have the program crawl. It does it's magic, and outputs an html file (or zoomable jpeg or even word doc) that I can save to my desktop. I send that file as an attachment to my dissertation committee. When they open it in browser/dl and open it, it opens what, to them, looks like a web page. In that web page, they will be able to click on any folder/subfolder, and it will expand all the way down to file level with the names of all my files in that directory. But they can't modify anything, and they shouldn't have to install any extra plugins, blah blah. These people are mostly old and don't get computers that well."

And he's like, two hours later, "Here you go bud. Let me know if you run into any problems." And it works like magic. Glorious.

And now you're going to share it with us, right?