Printing file lists

[Guest]

Anyone know how to get a printout of folders and file lists.
I know how to set this up under XP but it does not work with Vista.
Greatful for sugestions. Thanking you.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Anyone know how to get a printout of folders and file lists.
I know how to set this up under XP but it does not work with Vista.
Greatful for sugestions. Thanking you.

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.


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[Guest]

Thank you very much of your reply. I had tried that but having got the
information on the sceen I am unable to do anything with it. How do you get
the resulting text into wordpad, ect?

 

[Dave]

If you opened a cmd window and typed
dir
you will see a list of files in the current directory scroll past

if you type
dir > filelist.txt

the same listing you saw above will be sent into a file named filelist.txt
you can open this file with a text editor, like Notepad or Wordpad.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Thank you very much of your reply. I had tried that but having got the
information on the sceen I am unable to do anything with it. How do you get
the resulting text into wordpad, ect?

From the command prompt (Start > Run > Cmd.exe), simply change to
the desired directory and type "dir > filelist.txt" You can then
subsequently edit the resulting text file using
NotePad, WordPad, Word, etc.


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safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin

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[Guest]

Thank you both for your reply. Must say it works a treat. Will have to
resurect my DOS knowledge though.

 

[Dave]

If you want a windows program to do a directory listing, I found this
program...
http://www.krksoft.com/index.php

 

[Guest]

Thank very much Dave and first impressions are good, much simpler that using
DOS.
I used to be able to create a file list (text) in Windows Explorer on XP by
adding a new menuentry in the right-click menu when you (right) click on a
folder but, so far, I have not been able to find how you can add that with
Vista. There doew not seem to be a method via file options as in XP. The
program you have indicated comes very close though.

 

[Guest]

There seems to be a problem with answering as it looks like you have not seen
my thank you to you. Anyway once again my thanks and as you can see I have
now managed.

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, Chick.

My favorite was as explained in this KB article:
How to add the Print Directory feature for folders in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=321379

The article hasn't been updated since 10/20/2006, so I'm not SURE it will
run in Vista. I haven't tried it.

I know this thread is a month old, but why don't you try this and post back
to let us know.

RC
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[Doug]

My favourite in XP too. I tried it with Vista a couple of months ago. I
can't remember the details but I couldn't get it to work and, as a stop-gap,
have settled for Directory Lister from:
www.krksoft.com
free for non commercial use. But I would prefer something that would work
from the (rightclick) context menu as nicely as Printdir.bat did and am
watching this thread for news of it.
Doug