Folder/File structure

Lydzor · 2 Aug 2007 at 10:51

I was wondering whether anyone knows whether there is a program about which can export folders and file names from your computer into a text document. I thought this would be useful if ever the case happened where your hard drive failed and you would like to know what programs and files you had previously, this could then be backed onto a USB drive.

Raumarik · 2 Aug 2007 at 11:07

at the root of C drive:

dir /s *. > list.txt

It'll churn away for a few minutes and create a text list of all folders on the C:\

Very basic (and free) way of doing it. there are programs that do a similar thing of course.

Lydzor · 2 Aug 2007 at 11:33

That's very useful, thanks! But, unfortunately it only shows the folders and not the files within. :confused:

marc2003 · 2 Aug 2007 at 11:38

a little typo there. should be....

dir /s *.* > list.txt

or you can filter by filetype....

dir /s *.mp3 > list.txt

or filename

dir /s *blah*.* > list.txt

and so on....

Lydzor · 2 Aug 2007 at 11:54

Works great, thanks for the help. I put /on in there too to list it by name order.

Uhtred · 2 Aug 2007 at 12:00

sysexporter is a very good programme if you need to do this kind of thing often

Lydzor · 2 Aug 2007 at 12:03

Just thought i'd do it every few months or so really, so the DOS system should be fine.

Raumarik · 2 Aug 2007 at 12:09

Ah sorry misread it initially, thought you only wanted folders (hence the *.)

Lydzor · 2 Aug 2007 at 12:35

Don't worry, it was useful nevertheless.