How do you get all your files listed into a text file?

[LakerGod]

My hard drive is making some weird noises. I have no time to backup all my mp3s and videos, so I was wondering if i could use a utility or command to list all of the file names into a text file. Any ideas?

 

[fr]

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[aceO07]

dir /s > filelist.txt

Type that at the dos prompt, at the whatever directory you want to create the list for. It'll create a text file called filelist.txt in the same directory. Get rid of the /s if you don't want it to list all the files in the subdirectories. You can also add in wildcards like *.mp3 or *.avi to list only mp3/avi files, just add in it before the >.

I hope all of that made sense, it's 7:45am and I'm sleepy.

 

[Nemesis77]

ls > file.txt

Of course, that's how it's done in Linux

 

[Anubis]

you can also load all you MP3s into winamp (2.8) and theres a button that will generate a HTNL list of all the songs in the List. its in missalinaus options i think. i do beleive that that all have to have ID3 tags so thet dont come up as unknown

might work with mpegs and avi's if you play them in winamp also

 

[LakerGod]

Thanks for all your help!

 

[bmacd]

Originally posted by: LakerGod
Thanks for all your help!

did you get it ok? There are plenty of other command line switches you could have used instead of "/s". If you wanted to only grab the names of movies or mp3s, you could have done something like dir *.mp3 /s >filelist.txt, assuming you wanted to search all subdirectories.

-=bmacd=-

 

[ScottMac]

Tree /f >test.fil

That'll list all the files with the appropriate directory tree structure.

Good Luck

Scott

 

[KeyserSoze]

I DEFINITELY reccomend this little program to everyone for directory printing. SURE, you could do it the easy way as stated above , but here's some freeware that was posted here a while ago, that I use. Small program written in VB, prints out or saves it to disk, a listing of all files in a directory (and subdirectory if you choose). With all file details (depending on what you choose.)

It's open, so you can modify/change it if you want.

KarenWare Directory Printer


EDIT: (Grammar)


KeyserSoze

 

[LakerGod]

Thanks for all your help. I learned a lot from this thread.