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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Zxerolfor the smaller pieces, my shovel wouldn't doso i took off my boot and used my shoeRegistered Userregular
edited September 2009
Ultracheap method: "dir > file.txt" on the command line. Use the /s switch to list child subdirectories too if you want.
"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?
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...
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:
\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.
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.
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"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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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?
Can trade TF2 items or whatever else you're interested in. PM me.
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...
Or is that just me?
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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:
\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.
Also, if there's hidden files, you'll want dir /a /b /s > file.txt - the /a will give you hidden/system as well.
Can trade TF2 items or whatever else you're interested in. PM me.
Thanks muchly.