Windows 10: Make list of files in a folder

Hello,I have several hundreds video clips (mp4), arranged in several folders.Wanted to make a list of them, not to print, just a list in the computer.On some site I found this: To write in the address line of the browser the full path to thatfolder and Enter, the list was done, then on an empty area right-click and save as...The index was done.But when I opened the index page, the list was doubled and even tripled, A to V once, then twice and even third.Clicking on any line in the index it opened a new page and video started sometimes to play and sometimes only audio was heard, and going down the list clicking on a line, got a "File was not found".This also is with listing some folders with music (mp3).Some explanation what is / was done wrong, or any other method to make such simple list, not for printing.Answers will be appreciated.Thanks

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How to make a list of file in directory using command line?

No, the way the commend works is:

The file is created

The file is opened for writing

Every file name in the directory is appended to the file - including itself

The file is closed

An ides might be to give the text file a name that would cause it to be the last filename in the text file and delete it with another command . . .

i hope this helps!

 

How to make a list of file in directory using command line?

The solution is to save the text file somewhere else so it is not included in the directory listing, for example:

Use

>C:\WINDOWS\Temp\file_list.txt

Instead of

> list.txt

To save the file to Windows Temp Folder

I hope this is the answer you were looking for!

 

It's complicated a bit by the fact that the files are in "several" folders, rather than one folder.

Do you have any experience with using the command prompt?

If so, adapt the following DIR command to your situation:

dir c:\Music /b /s > c:\textfile.txt


where "Music" is the folder containing the files and C: is your hard drive. The /s in the above command should pick up all the files in the Music folder and all subfolders.

At a command prompt, navigate to the folder in question and enter the command. The list will be found in the "textfile.txt" file in the root of the C drive.

If you can't use the command prompt, you could also install the Everything search tool and tell it to find all video files with a particular extension. Then just copy the list it shows you with the mouse and paste the list into a Word or text file.

Probably other ways too.

 

Are you trying to create a text file with a list of file names?
If so:
Open a command prompt
Go to the targeted folder
Type this:
dir >some-file-name

 

To add, one can use dir c:\Music /o/b/s>c:\textfile.txt to alphabetize the list. The only space needed in the command is the one right after Music. The /o makes it do the organizing.

 

My impression is that what he wants is a list he can click on. To me that suggests creating one folder with shortcuts to the items in the various media folders.

And perhaps Motim wants that to be a dynamic list- i.e. always up to date with respect to changing content in those folders.

If so, this could be done using Autohotkey, with a script which scans through the files in each folder in turn and for each file use this command to create a shortcut:




Motim?

 

I like the tree command for this sometimes:

tree /f /a > %temp%\dirList.txt
notepad %temp%\dirList.txt

 

Here is the result I get:

C:\Users\Steve>dir d:\Music /b /s > c:\textfile.txt
Access is denied.

I am the administrator.

 

The OP stated he didn't want a printable list...

 

Yeah, but did you run the command prompt at the administrator level by right clicking it?

I'm assuming you in fact do have a d:\music directory.

 

Right Click Enhancer will do a file list, and it's free.
Right Click Enhancer | Control Panel for your right click

 

with C:\Users\Steve>dir d:\Music /b /s > c:\textfile.txt the error is c:\textfile.txt do C:\Users\Steve>dir d:\Music /b /s >textfile.txt should work its not letting you write to the root

 

PrintFolder Pro

I have the pro version and is good.