Making searchable/text-based index of file directories

[PianoMan]

Is there any way of creating a *.pdf or maybe Excel file of a directory structure and associated files?

Here's the dilemma: I've got an Archos 504 Portable Media Player with several movies and TONS of edited family videos which I have imported. Browsing thru the movies is simple enough, since I know the name of the movie and can browse thru the "Movie" subfolder.

However, with regards to the family vids, let's say I recall a funny instance of our kids' antics and know it's in one of the Epcot vidclips we have. I've got almost half a dozen Epcot clips interspersed in the "Family Vacations" folder, categorized by year.

On a computer, I could call it up via a "search" function. Unfortunately, I've got no such luxury on the Archos, just folder browsing.

What I'd like to know if there is any way (short of manually) I can index file names to paths (i.e., for the Epcot example above - I could look up "Epcot" and cross it to "Family Videos", years 1989, '91, '95, '98, and '03 and go right through them).

Can someone give me some ideas, or am I resigned to a manual operation? Thanks!

 

[CZroe]

IIRC:
DIR /S > list.txt

You can use other options to list it however you want so that it could be imported into a spreadsheet very easily.

 

[PianoMan]

:thumbsup:

Thanks! Found that online just after I posted this. That'll be the route I go, but it's still a bit manual.

Any programs out there that make this easy? Free programs, even?

 

[CZroe]

I'd suggest listing with /B and then using the "\" as the separator value when importing list.txt into Excel to get it to make a different column for each folder.

 

[PianoMan]

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

That's the ticket - thanks!!!