How print tree of data cd in XP pro?

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Alex Andra

Hi,

I've accumulated a lot of data files and they are spread over a lot of cd's.
What I want to do is print out a list of the files along with their size and
date like you get when you open the cd up in windows explorer, and keep the
list with the CD. I know there must be an easy way to do this basic
function, but try as I may, I have not been able to do it. The best I can
manage is a screen capture, then edit it in a graphics file editor, and then
print it, or them, and then cut them apart and glue them together. Very
tedious and time consuming.

Can anybody set me straight on how to do this?

Thanks in advance, and sorry for posting what probable has been answered a
million times before.

alex
 
| "Alex Andra" <[email protected]>
| wrote in message | <SNIP> What I want to do is print out a list of the files along
| with their size and date like you get when you open the cd up
| in windows explorer, and keep the list with the CD. <SNIP>

Just in case you are one of the many that uses Microsoft Office
but does not know about the Microsoft Outlook Integrated File
Management Advanced Find component (finder.exe)...

You can use finder.exe to search for files in any folder on your
computer, any network drive your computer is connected to, and
any removable drive attached to your computer. Additionally, you
can use finder.exe to view a file list of a single folder.

Then you can print the view of the list directly from finder.exe.
Or if you want to save the list you can copy it and then paste it
into a program such as Word or Excel.

For some more information about finder.exe, search Microsoft
Outlook Help for the following phrases (with the quotes) and read
the topic(s) returned:

- "Print a view of a file list"
- "About finding items and files"
- "Search for items and files using Advanced Find"
- "Add or remove fields in a view"
- "Set up or remove individual components"

To copy the table list of search results or a file list of a
folder, and insert it into a programs such as Microsoft
Word or Excel:

- Click within the table list of results

- Select [Menu bar] Edit | Select All
(or keyboard command: CTRL+A)

- Use the keyboard command CTRL+C
(to copy file list of a folder). Note: Do not use
the right-click Context menu Copy command.

- For Excel select [Menu bar] Edit | Paste
(or keyboard command: CTRL+V)

- For Word select Edit | Paste Special | Unformatted Text

And if you have any questions about the Microsoft Outlook
Integrated File Management Advanced Find component I
suggest that you post in the following newsgroup:

microsoft.public.outlook.general

If you read the newsgroups using a Web Browser see:

Microsoft Office Online
Office Discussion Groups Home
http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx

If you read newsgroups using a NNTP newsreader, such
as Outlook Express, and use the msnews.microsoft.com
news server here is a link:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.general
 
Hi Carrie,
thanks for your exhaustive post!
I have finder.exe, found it, and ran it, but
it only let me "browse" around in my outlook
folders. It didn't connect to my machine's
folders.
???

A
 
||| "Alex Andra" <[email protected]>
||| wrote in message ||| <SNIP> What I want to do is print out a list of the files
||| <SNIP>

|| "Carrie Garth" <[email protected]>
|| wrote in message || <SNIP> You can use finder.exe <SNIP>

| "Alex Andra" <[email protected]>
| wrote in message | Hi Carrie,
| thanks for your exhaustive post!
| I have finder.exe, found it, and ran it, but
| it only let me "browse" around in my outlook
| folders. It didn't connect to my machine's
| folders. ???

The way you describe Outlook on your PC it sounds like the
Microsoft Outlook Integrated File Management Advanced Find
component is not installed on your PC.

According to the following Microsoft Outlook Help Topics:

TITLE: About finding items and files

QUOTE: "Note If files do not appear in the Advanced Find
dialog box, the Integrated File Management component probably
wasn't installed during Setup."

For information about how to install components, search
Microsoft Outlook Help for the topic titled: "Set up or remove
individual components"

And if you have any questions about installing the Microsoft
Outlook Integrated File Management Advanced Find component
you will find the Microsoft Outlook installation experts in the
following newsgroup:

If you read the newsgroups via the Web visit the following Web
Page to find the newsgroup: Outlook - Install and Configure

Microsoft Office Newsgroups
http://communities.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.asp?icp=prod_office

If you read newsgroups using a NNTP newsreader, such as
Outlook Express, and use the msnews.microsoft.com news server,
here is a link to: microsoft.public.outlook.installation
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.installation
 
Here's a solution that does not involve getting or installing any
additional software. Use the "tree" command line program to create the
tree. Export the output to a file and print the file you create (or
edit), e.g.

tree /f > c:\temp\tree.txt


Tree, unfortuantely, doesn't print file sizes and dates. Use the dir
command, with a switch to show subdirectories

dir /s > c:\temp\dir.txt

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms
 
Hello Rob!

I ran the two lines you suggested in a command prompt dialog box, and
indeed, lists worthy of Zeus himself found their way to the temp folder.

Now to edit them, hmm.... oi-vey.

Thanks,

alex
 
Edit with Notepad, Word, or any other text editor. Print from there too.

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms
 
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