Shoutbox

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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I just checked the help and found out that you can make it list subdirectories with the /S switch...

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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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Originally posted by WDZ


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

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Dir/p works.....Oh long time since i havent entered the command prompt(or dos)...

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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is there a way that i can have it show the length of songs? ( like the time of each song in the folder?)

same for movies