Making Printable Lists of Files

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Can someone help me please.
I have a folder with approximately 400 mp3's. I want to make a printable
list of these files.
Is there a simple way of doing so 'cos I do not fancy typing all of the
information individually.
Any help will be appreciated

Dick Smith
 
Go to a command prompt. Change to the directory where the files are that
you want to print out. Type "dir *.* >> file.out" . It will create a file
named "file.out" in that same directory that lists all of the files in the
directory. You can use other dir command line arguments to change what is
saved to the file (i.e. dir /s >> file.out will print all files in the
subfolders as well). If it doesn't work try usin << instead of >>. You can
open the file up in notepad and print it out.

- Dom
 
Greetings --

From the command prompt (Start > Run > Cmd.exe), simply change to
the desired directory and type "dir > filelist.txt" or "dir > lpt1,"
just as you used to do in DOS. Any of the switches for the DIR
command (type "dir /?") will work with this command, if you wish to
modify the output. You can then subsequently edit the resulting text
file using NotePad, WordPad, Word, etc.

Alternatively:

HOW TO Add a Print Directory Feature for Folders in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=321379


Bruce Chambers

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Hi Joshua,

Just truncate them, use the first six characters plus ~1, ~2, etc.

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| Can someone help me please.
| I have a folder with approximately 400 mp3's. I want to make a printable
| list of these files.
| Is there a simple way of doing so 'cos I do not fancy typing all of the
| information individually.
| Any help will be appreciated
|
| Dick Smith
|
|

Good free directory printer.

http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptdirprn.asp

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Is the ~2 like a pattern matching thing?

Rick "Nutcase" Rogers said:
Hi Joshua,

Just truncate them, use the first six characters plus ~1, ~2, etc.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone



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Many thanks peoples for your input, especially HillbillyBuddhist, your link
was ace. Hope you all have a great Xmas and New Year
 
Hi,

It's just a means of designating similar folders in dos. For instance, you
have three folders:

D:\favorite books
D:\favorite programs
D:\favorite tunes

In DOS with 8 character names, they would all look like D:\favorite with no
way of telling them apart without truncating. In order to differentiate
them, they are assigned sequentially as:

D:\favorite books D:\favori~1
D:\favorite programs D:\favori~2
D:\favorite tunes D:\favori~3

This help?

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Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
 
Or, you can just do one of these 2 things.

If the directory name is "d:\My Favorite Music in MP3 Format", for example,
you can go to a dos prompt and type from the d drive "cd my fav*" and it
will most likely go to the right directory (if no other directories start
with the same letters). Or you can just put quotation marks around the
directory name. id to change to c:\program files directory, type cd \
"Program Files". That should work as well. HTH

- Dom

- Dom
 
| Many thanks peoples for your input, especially HillbillyBuddhist, your
link
| was ace. Hope you all have a great Xmas and New Year
|
|
| | > Can someone help me please.
| > I have a folder with approximately 400 mp3's. I want to make a printable
| > list of these files.
| > Is there a simple way of doing so 'cos I do not fancy typing all of the
| > information individually.
| > Any help will be appreciated
| >
| > Dick Smith


Same to you and yours.
 
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