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Creating a Text List of Files From a Folder?

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I'm interested in creating some txt lists of files I have as I have a lot, mainly the music so that if anything ever happened to the HDD I'd have an idea of what I used to have and could replace them. Is there any program or bat.file code I could use to do this?

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  • ZxerolZxerol Provocative Pogona Registered User regular
    Ultracheap method: "dir > file.txt" on the command line. Use the /s switch to list child subdirectories too if you want.

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  • PeregrineFalconPeregrineFalcon Registered User
    dir /b /s > file.txt would work well, and give you just the filenames.

    "tree > file.txt" would give you a directory structure if you've got the music sorted by album/artist/etc, then you just have a list of albums.

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  • TrentusTrentus Registered User regular
    PeregrineFalchttp://forums.penny-arcade.com/images/styles/PA/editor/menupop.gifon wrote: »
    "tree > file.txt" would give you a directory structure if you've got the music sorted by album/artist/etc, then you just have a list of albums.

    Chuck in the /f switch to get the files as well.

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  • PeregrineFalconPeregrineFalcon Registered User
    Trentus wrote: »
    PeregrineFalchttp://forums.penny-arcade.com/images/styles/PA/editor/menupop.gifon wrote: »
    "tree > file.txt" would give you a directory structure if you've got the music sorted by album/artist/etc, then you just have a list of albums.

    Chuck in the /f switch to get the files as well.

    If you've got a bunch of loose files (downloaded music or whatever) then sure, but artist + album should be enough for commercially ripped CDs.

    Also, good lord, what happened to my name there? D:

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  • TrentusTrentus Registered User regular
    PeregrineFalcon wrote: »
    Trentus wrote: »
    PeregrineFalchttp://forums.penny-arcade.com/images/styles/PA/editor/menupop.gifon wrote: »
    "tree > file.txt" would give you a directory structure if you've got the music sorted by album/artist/etc, then you just have a list of albums.

    Chuck in the /f switch to get the files as well.

    If you've got a bunch of loose files (downloaded music or whatever) then sure, but artist + album should be enough for commercially ripped CDs.

    Also, good lord, what happened to my name there? D:

    Huh... I wonder if that'll happen this time... I mean, I guess it's possible that I screwed it up, but I don't know how. It's not like I had that url on my clipboard or anything and I don't recall typing it...

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  • SyphonBlueSyphonBlue Registered User regular
    Hmmm...Is there any way to do this but not have the weird symbols in front of all the directories?

    Or is that just me?

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  • TrentusTrentus Registered User regular
    Ah, right, use tree /a to tell it to print ascii characters.

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    :^:

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  • DarkWarriorDarkWarrior __BANNED USERS
    Thanks guys.

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  • DarkWarriorDarkWarrior __BANNED USERS
    What does it mean when it says "Too many parameters - /s"?

    EDIT: Nevermind was doing it wrong.

    Anyway, additional question, the best result seems to be dir /b /s which doesnt give me stuff i dont need like file size and date modified. But is there a way to get it to also ignore the file directory so I just get a solid list of names?

    The output I'm getting at the moment is this:


    D:\Music\Akon - Beautiful (Ft. Colby Odonis And Kardinal Offishall).mp3

    Compared to this:

    10/08/2009 17:27 7,350,021 Akon - Beautiful (Ft. Colby Odonis And Kardinal Offishall).mp3

    Although the second output for some reason ignores the album art which I like.

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  • PeregrineFalconPeregrineFalcon Registered User
    Once it's in a text file, just Ctrl+H (find and replace) the "D:\Music\" bit with "" and you're golden.

    Also, if there's hidden files, you'll want dir /a /b /s > file.txt - the /a will give you hidden/system as well.

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  • DarkWarriorDarkWarrior __BANNED USERS
    Ah ok so I want to leave out the /a and it'll skip the album art. Thanks guys, I knew there was a command but its been along while since I used DOS for anything but mass deletion.

    Thanks muchly.

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