text file version of folder properties

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Matt Silberstein

I would like to get a listing of the "properties" (that is, the stuff
you get when you right click and ask for properties) of one or more
folders/files. Either a straight text or a more complex file
structure, I don't care. I tried looking for this, but I could not
come up with keywords that made it differ from about a billion
completely different questions. (Let's see, keywords: windows, folder,
properties, that should bring up one or two pages. Sheesh. Only 1.8
million.)

TIA.


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Matt Silberstein

All in all, if I could be any animal, I would want to be
a duck or a goose. They can fly, walk, and swim. Plus,
there there is a certain satisfaction knowing that at the
end of your life you will taste good with an orange sauce
or, in the case of a goose, a chestnut stuffing.
 
Matt said:
I would like to get a listing of the "properties" (that is, the stuff
you get when you right click and ask for properties) of one or more
folders/files. Either a straight text or a more complex file
structure, I don't care. I tried looking for this, but I could not
come up with keywords that made it differ from about a billion
completely different questions. (Let's see, keywords: windows, folder,
properties, that should bring up one or two pages. Sheesh. Only 1.8
million.)

TIA.
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For creation date & time, size and long file name:

Open the Command prompt, type the DIR (directory) command redirected to
a text file.

something like this:

dir "C:\Documents and Settings\Windows Username\My Documents" > list.txt



Yor can open the resulting file with your choice of Windows Notepad,
Windows Wordpad, Microdoft Works Word Processor, Microsoft Works, Open
Office or any of MANY other applications.
 
On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 15:09:27 -0400, in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics , RobertVA
<[email protected]> in
For creation date & time, size and long file name:

Open the Command prompt, type the DIR (directory) command redirected to
a text file.

something like this:

dir "C:\Documents and Settings\Windows Username\My Documents" > list.txt



Yor can open the resulting file with your choice of Windows Notepad,
Windows Wordpad, Microdoft Works Word Processor, Microsoft Works, Open
Office or any of MANY other applications.
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I wanted things like folder size/number of files, which includes
subfolders. I suppose I can build something to do that, but I was
hoping for something simple.

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Matt Silberstein

All in all, if I could be any animal, I would want to be
a duck or a goose. They can fly, walk, and swim. Plus,
there there is a certain satisfaction knowing that at the
end of your life you will taste good with an orange sauce
or, in the case of a goose, a chestnut stuffing.
 
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 06:21:21 -0500, in
Take a look at Karenware:

http://www.karenware.com/

Look up the utility (free) "Directory Printer". It will do all you want and
save it to a text file.
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Neat stuff. Not directly what I wanted, but I can make it work.
Thanks.



--
Matt Silberstein

All in all, if I could be any animal, I would want to be
a duck or a goose. They can fly, walk, and swim. Plus,
there there is a certain satisfaction knowing that at the
end of your life you will taste good with an orange sauce
or, in the case of a goose, a chestnut stuffing.
 
Drop a folder on attached file and you'll get a file appearing on your desktop that can be viewed in Excel.
 
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