Subscribe by EmailGenerate files of folder contents with JR Directory Printer
December 14, 2007 by Mark O'Neill |An interesting little piece of freeware flashed across my screen the other day which intrigued me enough to download it and try it out. It’s a program which generates text files of a folder’s content in Windows Explorer.
I have a lot of iTunes music and CD backups on my computer and I have often wondered if I can easily and quickly generate printable lists of the folder contents. Well with JR Directory Printer, you can with no problem.
It is an “exe” program which doesn’t need to be installed so this can also be run off a USB stick. When you double-click on the program, the following box comes up :
Simply navigate to the folder you want to print out. Then choose from the following options :
Recurse sub-directories : to see a complete list of the sub-directories and all the files contained in those directories. These can also be printed out.
Lowercase filename : turns the filenames into lowercase letters
Dos style filename : limits the filename length to a maximum of 8 characters.
Then when you have chosen your options, just press the start button and a text file will instantly be generated with the contents of the folder you have specified.
This would be helpful if you have lots and lots of burnt CD disks with software programs, music files, video files and documents. Now you can instantly create lists of the disk contents which can then be placed with the disk. No more hunting for an elusive file ever again! Or if you are about to do a PC system backup / re-installation, you can now make a list of the entire contents of the Program Files folder. That way, you would have a complete list of all the installed programs in case something goes wrong.
Can anyone suggest an alternative to JR Directory Printer?
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Well, for those of you who like to use the command prompt once in a while:
navigate to the desired folder and type:
Dir *.* > desiredfilename.txt
You can also add these switches after the wildcard:
/S Recurse sub-directories
/W Use Wide list format
And if you want to append content at the end of an already existing text file, replace the > with >>
Ex: dir *.* /S /W >> mydir.txt
This would list All files, folders and sub-folders within a location, format the output in “Wide” format and append it to a file named mydir.txt
Enjoy
Ah ya beat me to the command line!
Mac/Linux/BSD/Solaris users:
ls -FR | grep -v “/$” > files.txt
great tool
try this from the command line
TREE [drive:][path] [/F] [/A] > [output path]
/F Display the names of the files in each folder.
/A Use ASCII instead of extended characters.
Example: TREE c:\ /F /A > c:fileList.txt
more readable than dir
Its a useful GUI but I dont think its worth the hassle. Linux users can just type in the terminal:
ls -R | grep -v “/$” > list.txt
Thanks for the h/up on JR dirprint-a neat little app(especially for a DOS illiterate like me-if it would only print to .rtf or .doc!-dreaming on & on..)
Nice site also