Looking for a program that will save all my file names

[G73S]

I have a large collection of videos

Is there a program that will make a text file list of all the files in that videos folder?

That way, if ever I happen to lose the data, I know the names of the movies I have lost.

Example:

Gladiator [2000].avi >>> that's the file name

output:

Gladiator [2000]

like I want a program which would do this in a batch process for the entire folder

 

[jolancer]

command prompt

dir /B "C:\path\to\dir\*" > "C:\path\to\example.txt"

 

[G73S]

command prompt

dir /B "C:\path\to\dir\*" > "C:\path\to\example.txt"

no matter what way I am typing this it keeps saying cannot find the path specified

are you sue of the above example? also do I need to include the quotations?

 

[Chrishuff1]

no matter what way I am typing this it keeps saying cannot find the path specified

are you sue of the above example? also do I need to include the quotations?

Ya, it's correct, that's how I keep track of my movies folder...if you wanted the file sizes and everything you could do:

dir > C: \Test.txt (replace with where you want your txt file to go) I hope you aren't just typing in exactly what he did cause that won't return anything 🙂

 

[Fardringle]

Yes, what jolancer provided works just fine, and yes you need to use the quotation marks. But replace

"C:\path\to\dir\*"

with the actual path to your movie folder

(i.e. "C:\users\g73s\documents\movies\*"

and

"C:\path\to\example.txt"

with the path and file name you want to use to store the list

(i.e. "C:\movielist.txt").

(The code boxes are to prevent the forums from turning the : and \ symbols into :\)

 

[G73S]

Yes, what jolancer provided works just fine, and yes you need to use the quotation marks. But replace

"C:\path\to\dir\*"

with the actual path to your movie folder

(i.e. "C:\users\g73s\documents\movies\*"

and

"C:\path\to\example.txt"

with the path and file name you want to use to store the list

(i.e. "C:\movielist.txt").

(The code boxes are to prevent the forums from turning the : and \ symbols into :\)

WOW!! Thanks a lot man! can't believe it was that easy and didn't require any additional software!

I really appreciate it guys!

Thank you so much

 

[Chrishuff1]

Yes, what jolancer provided works just fine, and yes you need to use the quotation marks.

Dude, no you don't. You only need the quotes if there's a space in the path...like:

C: \Documents and Settings then you would need them, but if it's just C: \Movies you don't.