Is there a way to turn a folder's filenames into a text file?

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I recall in the DOS days I could make such a filename list using the ""
after typing DIR. (I sort of forgot exactly how to do that).

But that will only generate trunkated 8+3 filenames.
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dir list.txt
will still work under XP - but will give you long filenames. You can use
all the switches to dir (e. g. dir /w will leave out the date, time, and
size).

You don't need to download anything, though whatever it is that gives
you "command prompt here" (I forget how I got it) will save you a lot of
time moving around directories in the command prompt window.
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On 03/11/2017 23:41, wrote:
I like the old tv series from the 50's thru 70's.
Many of them are now on youtube, and I use a Firefox extension to save
them to my hard drive.

I have dialup internet at home, so I go to a WIFI to download these
videos onto my laptop computer. However, my laptop has a small hard
drive so when I get home, I move all my videos to my desktop puter,
which has a huge hard drive.

The problem is that I may download 25 or 50 episodes today of the same
tv series. Then tomorrow I go and download another 50 or less. That's
fine, except since I moved all the videos to my desktop puter, I can
only rely on my memory to not download the same ones over again.

So, lets say I have 100 videos at home and want to make their filenames
into a text file, so I can refer to that text file at a WIFI spot.

I will see all my videos in the folder as
(example)

Dog bone Series 1
Dog bone Series 2
Dog bone Series 3
Dog bone Series 5
Dog bone Series 7
Dog bone Series 11
Dog bone Series 12
Dog bone Series 14


Ok, you can see I am missing series 4, 6, and so on.

Aside from writing all of this on paper (too much work), is there some
software (freeware if possible) that can turn the filenames in any
folder into a text file, which I can save and have with me at the WIFI.

I recall in the DOS days I could make such a filename list using the ""
after typing DIR. (I sort of forgot exactly how to do that).

But that will only generate trunkated 8+3 filenames.

In the example above, I'd get dogbon~1.mp4 dogbon~2.mp4 and so on. That
wont work!!!!

What file can I download to create a text file list?

(Will be used with XP and/or Win98 (if applicable for Win98).

Thanks





Launch the cmd prompt and then go to the folder where the files are
located. At the prompt type:

dir /b MyList.txt

Now double click on the file called MyList.txt and voila, your files are
all listed in it.

The list should be listed alphabetically but you can always manipulate
this list in Excel if you have on your machine or use Microsoft online
version free of charge.

There is a way to go to the cmd prompt using File explorer by pressing
the SHIFT key and Right-Clicking simultaneously and then choosing "Open
Command Prompt Here. See this picture where I am using Powershell but
you will have CMD prompt instead.

https://i.imgur.com/ca3vbvZ.png https://i.imgur.com/ca3vbvZ.png



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I like the old tv series from the 50's thru 70's.
Many of them are now on youtube, and I use a Firefox extension to save
them to my hard drive.

I have dialup internet at home, so I go to a WIFI to download these
videos onto my laptop computer. However, my laptop has a small hard
drive so when I get home, I move all my videos to my desktop puter,
which has a huge hard drive.

The problem is that I may download 25 or 50 episodes today of the same
tv series. Then tomorrow I go and download another 50 or less. That's
fine, except since I moved all the videos to my desktop puter, I can
only rely on my memory to not download the same ones over again.

So, lets say I have 100 videos at home and want to make their filenames
into a text file, so I can refer to that text file at a WIFI spot.

I will see all my videos in the folder as
(example)

Dog bone Series 1
Dog bone Series 2
Dog bone Series 3
Dog bone Series 5
Dog bone Series 7
Dog bone Series 11
Dog bone Series 12
Dog bone Series 14


Ok, you can see I am missing series 4, 6, and so on.

Aside from writing all of this on paper (too much work), is there some
software (freeware if possible) that can turn the filenames in any
folder into a text file, which I can save and have with me at the WIFI.

I recall in the DOS days I could make such a filename list using the ""
after typing DIR. (I sort of forgot exactly how to do that).

But that will only generate trunkated 8+3 filenames.

In the example above, I'd get dogbon~1.mp4 dogbon~2.mp4 and so on. That
wont work!!!!

What file can I download to create a text file list?

(Will be used with XP and/or Win98 (if applicable for Win98).

Thanks

On 03 Nov 2017, wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

Aside from writing all of this on paper (too much work), is there
some software (freeware if possible) that can turn the filenames
in any folder into a text file, which I can save and have with me
at the WIFI.

I recall in the DOS days I could make such a filename list using
the "" after typing DIR. (I sort of forgot exactly how to do
that).

But that will only generate trunkated 8+3 filenames.

XP (and later)'s DOS emulation command line box will give you long file
names, unless told to do so otherwise by the /x parameter. To see what
you want, I'd use something like this in a CMD session:

dir /b /on

which give you /B(are) file names (no paths or other extraneous
information) and in alphabetical order by file name.

On Fri, 03 Nov 2017 17:41:37 -0600, wrote:

I like the old tv series from the 50's thru 70's.
Many of them are now on youtube, and I use a Firefox extension to save
them to my hard drive.

I have dialup internet at home, so I go to a WIFI to download these
videos onto my laptop computer. However, my laptop has a small hard
drive so when I get home, I move all my videos to my desktop puter,
which has a huge hard drive.

The problem is that I may download 25 or 50 episodes today of the same
tv series. Then tomorrow I go and download another 50 or less. That's
fine, except since I moved all the videos to my desktop puter, I can
only rely on my memory to not download the same ones over again.

So, lets say I have 100 videos at home and want to make their filenames
into a text file, so I can refer to that text file at a WIFI spot.

I will see all my videos in the folder as
(example)

Go to the command line and type dir dir.txt


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On Fri, 03 Nov 2017 20:39:34 -0400, Nil
wrote:

On 03 Nov 2017, wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

Aside from writing all of this on paper (too much work), is there
some software (freeware if possible) that can turn the filenames
in any folder into a text file, which I can save and have with me
at the WIFI.

I recall in the DOS days I could make such a filename list using
the "" after typing DIR. (I sort of forgot exactly how to do
that).

But that will only generate trunkated 8+3 filenames.

XP (and later)'s DOS emulation command line box will give you long file
names, unless told to do so otherwise by the /x parameter. To see what
you want, I'd use something like this in a CMD session:

dir /b /on

which give you /B(are) file names (no paths or other extraneous
information) and in alphabetical order by file name.

Yup and if you want this to export to a flat text file use
dir /b /on myfile.txt

I use the same command to produce MP3 play lists using
dir /b /on playlist.m3u
Most player software sees the M3U as a play list and it is really just
a text file.

On Fri, 03 Nov 2017 20:39:34 -0400, Nil
wrote:

On 03 Nov 2017, wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

Aside from writing all of this on paper (too much work), is there
some software (freeware if possible) that can turn the filenames
in any folder into a text file, which I can save and have with me
at the WIFI.

I recall in the DOS days I could make such a filename list using
the "" after typing DIR. (I sort of forgot exactly how to do
that).

But that will only generate trunkated 8+3 filenames.

XP (and later)'s DOS emulation command line box will give you long file
names, unless told to do so otherwise by the /x parameter. To see what
you want, I'd use something like this in a CMD session:

dir /b /on

which give you /B(are) file names (no paths or other extraneous
information) and in alphabetical order by file name.

I'm using my Win98 computer right now. That does not work in Win98. I
get the 8+3 filenames. I will try it on my XP machine when I turn it on.

On Fri, 03 Nov 2017 23:05:00 -0600, wrote:

On Fri, 03 Nov 2017 20:39:34 -0400, Nil
wrote:

On 03 Nov 2017, wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

Aside from writing all of this on paper (too much work), is there
some software (freeware if possible) that can turn the filenames
in any folder into a text file, which I can save and have with me
at the WIFI.

I recall in the DOS days I could make such a filename list using
the "" after typing DIR. (I sort of forgot exactly how to do
that).

But that will only generate trunkated 8+3 filenames.

XP (and later)'s DOS emulation command line box will give you long file
names, unless told to do so otherwise by the /x parameter. To see what
you want, I'd use something like this in a CMD session:

dir /b /on

which give you /B(are) file names (no paths or other extraneous
information) and in alphabetical order by file name.

I'm using my Win98 computer right now. That does not work in Win98. I
get the 8+3 filenames. I will try it on my XP machine when I turn it on.


It works on my w/98 machine. Were these stored with 8.3 file names for
some reason?

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On Fri, 03 Nov 2017 23:05:00 -0600, wrote:

On Fri, 03 Nov 2017 20:39:34 -0400, Nil
wrote:

On 03 Nov 2017, wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

Aside from writing all of this on paper (too much work), is there
some software (freeware if possible) that can turn the filenames
in any folder into a text file, which I can save and have with me
at the WIFI.

I recall in the DOS days I could make such a filename list using
the "" after typing DIR. (I sort of forgot exactly how to do
that).

But that will only generate trunkated 8+3 filenames.

XP (and later)'s DOS emulation command line box will give you long file
[]
I'm using my Win98 computer right now. That does not work in Win98. I
get the 8+3 filenames. I will try it on my XP machine when I turn it on.

Nil did say "XP (and later)" (-:

It works on my w/98 machine.

That's interesting.

Were these stored with 8.3 file names for
some reason?

All files have an 8.3 filename (and can be accessed by it). Up to I
think '98 (probably Me too), you could see it in I think "Properties"
for the file, but for some reason best known to MS they removed that
from XP on; "dir /x" will show them, though.
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On Sat, 4 Nov 2017 14:30:47 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:

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On Fri, 03 Nov 2017 23:05:00 -0600, wrote:

On Fri, 03 Nov 2017 20:39:34 -0400, Nil
wrote:

On 03 Nov 2017, wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

Aside from writing all of this on paper (too much work), is there
some software (freeware if possible) that can turn the filenames
in any folder into a text file, which I can save and have with me
at the WIFI.

I recall in the DOS days I could make such a filename list using
the "" after typing DIR. (I sort of forgot exactly how to do
that).

But that will only generate trunkated 8+3 filenames.

XP (and later)'s DOS emulation command line box will give you long file
[]
I'm using my Win98 computer right now. That does not work in Win98. I
get the 8+3 filenames. I will try it on my XP machine when I turn it on.

Nil did say "XP (and later)" (-:

It works on my w/98 machine.

That's interesting.

Were these stored with 8.3 file names for
some reason?

All files have an 8.3 filename (and can be accessed by it). Up to I
think '98 (probably Me too), you could see it in I think "Properties"
for the file, but for some reason best known to MS they removed that
from XP on; "dir /x" will show them, though.

You can still use the 8.3 file name on XP, I just tried it.
For example wind code map.jpg can be accessed by windco~1.jpg
assuming you know windco ... was the first file with those letters in
the file list. Otherwise you need the right number after ~

W/95-8 has full long file name support so I am not sure why the OP is
having a problem,. I was running W/98 on my MP3 players for years and
using the DIR *.MP3 /on/b playlist.m3u to create playlists.
If I wanted to use a DOS 6.3 platform I created the playlist there and
it defaulted to the 8.3 file names with the ~ and a number.
My cars ran DOS. (no display, key pad entries)

J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
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On Fri, 03 Nov 2017 23:05:00 -0600, wrote:

On Fri, 03 Nov 2017 20:39:34 -0400, Nil
wrote:

On 03 Nov 2017, wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

Aside from writing all of this on paper (too much work), is there
some software (freeware if possible) that can turn the filenames
in any folder into a text file, which I can save and have with me
at the WIFI.

I recall in the DOS days I could make such a filename list using
the "" after typing DIR. (I sort of forgot exactly how to do
that).

But that will only generate trunkated 8+3 filenames.

XP (and later)'s DOS emulation command line box will give you long file
[]
I'm using my Win98 computer right now. That does not work in Win98. I
get the 8+3 filenames. I will try it on my XP machine when I turn it on.

Nil did say "XP (and later)" (-:

It works on my w/98 machine.

That's interesting.

Were these stored with 8.3 file names for
some reason?

All files have an 8.3 filename (and can be accessed by it). Up to I
think '98 (probably Me too), you could see it in I think "Properties"
for the file, but for some reason best known to MS they removed that
from XP on; "dir /x" will show them, though.

xplorer2 will still conveniently show them.