Rename

[Jerry]

I am using Vista Ultimate and ran into this small irritating issue. I often
have CD/DVDs that I want to make list of what is on that disk. The way I
would normally do this is right-click on each file names, then select
rename, then copy that to notepad. Simple and direct. In Vista, the option
to rename is NOT on the Right-Click option list. This is NOT true for
renaming something on a regular hard drive, only on CD/DVDs.

Is there anyway to get around this issue???
Thanks for any help.

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Unless the files on the disk are in UDF format where you can rewrite them
live on disk and you have software installed capable of doing this, there
will option to change the name as files written to optical media are fixed.

dir /s <disk_drive>: >%userprofile%\desktop\list.txt

The above from a command prompt, where <disk_drive> is the drive letter will
create a text file list of the files and folders on a disk, including all
subfolders, and place it on your desktop.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Qu0ll]

I am using Vista Ultimate and ran into this small irritating issue. I
often > have CD/DVDs that I want to make list of what is on that disk. The
way I would normally do this is right-click on each file names, then select
rename, then copy that to notepad. Simple and direct. In Vista, the
option to rename is NOT on the Right-Click option list. This is NOT true
for renaming something on a regular hard drive, only on CD/DVDs.

Is there anyway to get around this issue???
Thanks for any help.

If the CDC/DVD is a ROM then it is read only and you can't change the name
of the files on it so Vista won't give you the opportunity to do so. You
may be only intending to copy the file name but Vista doesn't know that.

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And loving it,

-Q
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[Jerry]

Thanks Rick, I will give that a try.

Hi,

Unless the files on the disk are in UDF format where you can rewrite them
live on disk and you have software installed capable of doing this, there
will option to change the name as files written to optical media are
fixed.

dir /s <disk_drive>: >%userprofile%\desktop\list.txt

The above from a command prompt, where <disk_drive> is the drive letter
will create a text file list of the files and folders on a disk, including
all subfolders, and place it on your desktop.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com