i have about 50 cd/dvd backups, and it takes me a while to find s certain file or song. on them.

is there a fast and easy way to make a list of all the files on all the backups?
without me having to type it all in?

thanks.

Not without a little utility program AFAIK.
Then again, Windows has a Search facility...

There are programs that can generate lists of all the files and directories in a drive/directory of your choosing.

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/printfolders.html
(The home page seems to be down ATM )

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

http://home.pacbell.net/nitzsche/dirhtml/dirhtml.html

Or if you were too lazy to download something, Start > Run > Cmd > Dir works just fine

dir is good, but not quite as user-friendly or customizable...

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Originally posted by Ddunk


Or if you were too lazy to download something, Start > Run > Cmd > Dir works just fine

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dir is good, but not quite as user-friendly or customizable...

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Better yet... this command:

dir c:\music /s > c:\files.txt

where 'dir' is the command, 'c:\music' the drive\directory, '/s' option to show also the subdirectories, '>' option to send the results to a file, 'c:\files.txt' the file to be created for the results.

That's nice Yottabyte! Good old DOS

dir c:\music /S/B >> c:\files.txt


/B produces an output like:
  c:\autoexect.bat
  c:\config.sys
  c:\windows\fonts\onyx.ttf
  c:\windows\fonts\papyruss.ttf
  c:\windows\system\driver.dll
  c:\windows\system\funnybunny.dll
  c:\windows\temp\blahblah.tmp
  c:\windows\temp\helloworld.txt
in other words, without all the dir info crap...

>> instead of simply ">", will add the listings to the file. ">" will overwrite the file...


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But there are indeed very user friendly database-like programs which do exactly the same (although I never found one I personaly liked; every program I've found, tried, had one or two things I didn't like. So in the end I used the good old DOS commands too. And they work excellent for this stuff)

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
dir c:\music /S/B >> c:\files.txt


/B produces an output like:
  c:\autoexect.bat
  c:\config.sys
  c:\windows\fonts\onyx.ttf
  c:\windows\fonts\papyruss.ttf
  c:\windows\system\driver.dll
  c:\windows\system\funnybunny.dll
  c:\windows\temp\blahblah.tmp
  c:\windows\temp\helloworld.txt
in other words, without all the dir info crap...

>> instead of simply ">", will add the listings to the file. ">" will overwrite the file...


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But there are indeed very user friendly database-like programs which do exactly the same (although I never found one I personaly liked; every program I've found, tried, had one or two things I didn't like. So in the end I used the good old DOS commands too. And they work excellent for this stuff)

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not in pure DOS. What you ask is reading and interpreting file formats, DOS doesn't do that. However there are some DOS programs which can extract the time and other stuff from media files and show it, and thus can be rerouted to output in a text file...

But maybe, if you wanna do that, you're better of by searching for a Windows based CD indexing program. There are thousands and thousands of them (such programs exist even before CD's were invented; to index floppy discs etc; principle is exactly the same)