Windows 10: DOS Dir Command issues-dir *. /s doesn't get all subfolders?

I am trying to get an accurate picture of my music library, where all music is stored in album subfolders under artist folders. I opened a CMD window and at "E:\My Music\" prompt, typed: "dir *. /s" >dir.txt" in order to generate a text file of all folders and subfolders under "My Music". When I reviewed the dir command output I found some cases where the folder name is omitted from the higher level output but appears in the lower level. So it would look like this:


My Music\ABC


My Music\ABC\123

My Music\ABC\456

My Music\ABC\789


My Music\ABC\123\aaa

My Music\ABC\123\bbb

My Music\ABC\123\ccc


My Music\ABC\456\aaa
My Music\ABC\456\bbb

My Music\ABC\456\ccc


My Music\ABC\789\aaa

My Music\ABC\789\bbb

My Music\ABC\789\ccc

My Music\ABC\012


My Music\ABC\012\111

My Music\ABC\012\222

My Music\ABC\012\333


As you can see, the problem is that a level of subfolder is omitted from the top level of the DIR output, despite the fact that it is shown in the lower down levels of the DIR output. "My Music\ABC\012" should have been at the bottom of the first section of the DIR output, below the line "My Music\ABC\789". It will make it much easier if I could get a consistent output from my DIR command. By the way, I did check to see that the affected files and folder didn't have Hidden attribute. Also, so far, this has only affected about 2 out of around 30 folders, really have no idea what to do to fix this.

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dir Difficulties

DIR uses whatever time definition you tell it to use. Following command would list all files and folders in X:\Downloads in order they have been created:

dir X:\Downloads /t:c

DIR is fully capable to sort files and folders. Following command would list all files in X:\Downloads, oldest first:

dir X:\Downloads /o:d

The minus sign before a parameter reverses the results, so the following command would list the same folder in reversed order, newest first:

dir X:\Downloads /o:-d

You can also combine switches. Following command would list all files and folders in X:\Downloads and all its subfolders (the /s switch), listing them in newest first based on time of file / folder creation:

dir X:\Downloads /s /o:-d /t:c

 

dir Difficulties

I am getting the hang of this command set.

Maybe somebody know a work around that will list the three time stamps at one time.
Theoretically dir /TC /TA /TW.
dir will only show one of the three at one time.

To me it seems that the only way to get all three on a line is to run loop with output to file, then boiling down the three outputs to one line. Clumsy but maybe the only way to get the job done?

Thanks for any suggestions.

 

list contents similar to Dir command by Windows built in "Kind"

I've been searching for a way to print a listing of folder and subfolders and only want a certain kind, based on Windows built in "Kind" associations.

I know how to do the dir command to print a listing of a folder and how to use the dir command to list only a certain type.

What I am hoping for is someone out there might know of a way to make a printout or a file of the listings of a certain "kind" based on the associations that are setup in Windows.

For example, if you use Explorer to search, you can by kind (Documents, movies, videos, music, etc), or type (*.exe, *.avi, *.mp3, *.txt, *.doc, etc)

I've tried to search using various terms here, on Bing, Google, etc and it's just not taking me anywhere that might give me help. I've even looked for powershell scripts someone might have posted to do the job.

Prefer to not install 3rd party software to do the trick but use Windows built in solutions but am open to suggestions as a last resort.