Need to create index to folders and files

Monty wrote:

Before you read the inventive guesses that follow, ...

I snipped the quoted content. If you want to know what Monty's claims
are my "inventions", see the parent article (my post) to which he
replied.

... may I inform you that Karen Kenworthy sadly passed away in her
sleep on April 2nd, 2011.

RIP Karen Kenworthy
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/R...nworthy-113917
(dated May 06 2011)

Wonder who took over her domain registration since then. The last
renewal was THIS year (and only for 1 year).

https://www.whois.com/whois/karenware.com
Creation Date: 2000-04-10T02:48:26Z
Updated Date: 2017-03-14T04:37:11Z
Expiration Date: 2018-04-10T02:48:26Z

Maybe it was Joe Winnet since Karen's site is hosted on his server. Now
that is a guess (or, in your terms, inventive). Someone paid to renew
her domain registration. She's was still dead this year, too, unless
you're into watching all those zombie and undead movies (how boring).

And what were my inventive guesses? That her domain is hosted at Joe
Winnet's server (syihosting)? Do an 'nslookup karenware.com' and then
do a reverse DNS lookup on that IP address using 'nslookup ipaddrs".
Gee, look whose domain that is. Then go to that domain to see what you
get from there. Does that look like a professional webhosting service
to you? I didn't have to guess the date stamp for the latest version of
her directory printer. Says so right in her web page! Well, since the
product has not been updated then neither would the NSIS installer
program that it uses. Duh! The last update date stamp was published
and so are the released dates for Windows so none of those were
inventions. Are there still pages for selling t-shirts and coffee mugs?
Well, go visit her site and YOU click on the Power Tools Gear link. I
wasn't going to waste my money and time to check if cafexpress still
honors those sales. Free free to buy something from there if you really
need to know.

Just because you couldn't figure out does not mean that I invented. It
just means you're too lazy to check it out yourself. And since you're
being contentious, it was reported by multiple sources that she died
April 12th, not April 2nd.

Unless she rises, like Dr. Phibes (in the sequal), or someone takes over
her code to rebuild later versions using newer versions of NSIS, her
software remains orphanware hence my suggestion to find something newer
or still supported. The OP is reporting problems with the software.
The author isn't around to fix the code or employ a newer installer.
How do *you* suggest the OP resolve the install problem?

On Wed, 26 Apr 2017 01:15:43 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:

Monty wrote:

Before you read the inventive guesses that follow, ...

I snipped the quoted content. If you want to know what Monty's claims
are my "inventions", see the parent article (my post) to which he
replied.

... may I inform you that Karen Kenworthy sadly passed away in her
sleep on April 2nd, 2011.

RIP Karen Kenworthy
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/R...nworthy-113917
(dated May 06 2011)


And what were my inventive guesses?

They were the disrespectful comments that you included in your post:

"Probably the only reason she keeps her web site going is that she
still gets sales of t-shirts and coffee mugs which is probably enough
to pay for her domain's yearly renewal at TuCows and the webhosting
service at syihosting.com, "

I didn't bother reading any further...

Monty wrote:

On Wed, 26 Apr 2017 01:15:43 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:

Monty wrote:

Before you read the inventive guesses that follow, ...

I snipped the quoted content. If you want to know what Monty's claims
are my "inventions", see the parent article (my post) to which he
replied.

... may I inform you that Karen Kenworthy sadly passed away in her
sleep on April 2nd, 2011.

RIP Karen Kenworthy
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/R...nworthy-113917
(dated May 06 2011)


And what were my inventive guesses?

They were the disrespectful comments that you included in your post:

"Probably the only reason she keeps her web site going is that she
still gets sales of t-shirts and coffee mugs which is probably enough
to pay for her domain's yearly renewal at TuCows and the webhosting
service at syihosting.com, "

I didn't bother reading any further...

Oh, I'm disrespectful because I didn't know at the time she was dead.
Hmm, I wonder why she ever got into selling t-shirts and mugs. Yep,
that would be a huge market for major profits, uh huh, sure.

On Tue, 25 Apr 2017 08:30:07 -0400, wrote:

On Wed, 19 Apr 2017 05:11:16 -0400, wrote:

I have gone to the trouble of creating, collecting, organizing, and
renaming many items from some 4 family generations so far. They
consist of .jpg pictures, .pdf, .txt, & .doc records, even .mp4
clips. I have re-named them by year and content. For example -
Y1941-JOE SMITH FAM, Y1951-SAM JONES FAM TRIP TO COLO, Y1942- JOHN
CAMRY DIARY, etc. They are stored in folders, by year, and are stored
on hard drive, backed up on a memory stick.

Now then, I want to create an index to all this, showing folder names
by year, and file names therein. Windows Explorer seems only to show
single folder names with file names therein.
I want to show them all, and want to print same. This could also be
useful to show anything I may have missed oe duplicated.

Anyone suggest a program I can download to do this - preferably free?
Should be runnable in W7 aand W10.
Thank you
Tom

My failu


NSIS Error
Installer integrity chek has failed. Common causes include incomplete
download and damaged media. Contact the installer's author to obtain
a new copy. More information at: //nsis.sf.net/NSIS_Error
(I tried another download)

While I installed and used this app fine on my one W10 PC, I have
tried two additional install downloads of ptdirprn-setup.exe
on W7 and W10 on a separate multiboot PC, and get the same failure.
Suggests something wrong on that PC I would guess.

I went to:
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/mediawik...&redirec t=no

wherein there are a boat-load of suggestions including:

Clear your browser's cache.
Disable any download accelerators or managers and download the
installer again.
Rename the installer so it is a simple one-word name with no special
characters (without removing the .exe suffix)
Example: install.exe
Download the installer from another source approved by the software
developer or publisher.
It might be corrupted on the server, or the connection to the server
is unreliable from your location.
Update your anti-virus software (if installed) and download the
installer again.
Disable your anti-virus software and download the installer again.
Download the installer using another computer and copy it to the
original computer.
If you have the nVidia firewall installed, uninstall the program and
download the installer again.
Scan for, and remove malware and viruses on your system.
Scan the hard drive using scandisk, chkdsk, or any other hard drive
repair tool.
For people of ROMANIA who use FireFox in Romanian language try this
tutorial:
http://www.tutorialepc.ro/nsis-error...roblema-2.html
Wait for Windows Update to finish updating drivers.

I am in the middle of trying them so far to no avail.

I have never seen this error before.
Thanks
Tom


Well then, Since Kathy's pretty-good program doesn't work any more,
anyone know of a similar program (free)? I need one that will install
on both W7 and W10.

Tom

wrote:

Well then, Since Kathy's pretty-good program doesn't work any more,
anyone know of a similar program (free)? I need one that will install
on both W7 and W10.

http://alternativeto.net/software/directory-printer/

Haven't tried any of them so no recommendations from me (I just use the
tree.exe command).

https://www.raymond.cc/blog/print-al...xt-or-printer/

That still lists Karen's dir tool but you found out that it is old and
has installation problems for you. The others might work but check
which versions of Windows they say are supported. Although Raymond
wants you to download his copy, I'd do a search to find out if the
author has a site or if a known download site carries the file.

In article ,
says...

On Tue, 25 Apr 2017 08:30:07 -0400, wrote:

On Wed, 19 Apr 2017 05:11:16 -0400, wrote:

I have gone to the trouble of creating, collecting, organizing, and
renaming many items from some 4 family generations so far. They
consist of .jpg pictures, .pdf, .txt, & .doc records, even .mp4
clips. I have re-named them by year and content. For example -
Y1941-JOE SMITH FAM, Y1951-SAM JONES FAM TRIP TO COLO, Y1942- JOHN
CAMRY DIARY, etc. They are stored in folders, by year, and are stored
on hard drive, backed up on a memory stick.

Now then, I want to create an index to all this, showing folder names
by year, and file names therein. Windows Explorer seems only to show
single folder names with file names therein.
I want to show them all, and want to print same. This could also be
useful to show anything I may have missed oe duplicated.

Anyone suggest a program I can download to do this - preferably free?
Should be runnable in W7 aand W10.
Thank you
Tom

My failu


NSIS Error
Installer integrity chek has failed. Common causes include incomplete
download and damaged media. Contact the installer's author to obtain
a new copy. More information at: //nsis.sf.net/NSIS_Error
(I tried another download)

While I installed and used this app fine on my one W10 PC, I have
tried two additional install downloads of ptdirprn-setup.exe
on W7 and W10 on a separate multiboot PC, and get the same failure.
Suggests something wrong on that PC I would guess.

I went to:
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/mediawik...&redirec t=no

wherein there are a boat-load of suggestions including:

Clear your browser's cache.
Disable any download accelerators or managers and download the
installer again.
Rename the installer so it is a simple one-word name with no special
characters (without removing the .exe suffix)
Example: install.exe
Download the installer from another source approved by the software

Hi Tom

I already mentioned LS.exe.
(original home-page is gone)
It's only one exe with 112 kByte.
I'm using it since 2011.
Also under windows-7 and windows-10.
I can store it somewhere for you.
If you like send me an email to


Regards
Reinhard

Reinhard Skarbal wrote:
In article ,
says...
On Tue, 25 Apr 2017 08:30:07 -0400, wrote:

On Wed, 19 Apr 2017 05:11:16 -0400, wrote:

I have gone to the trouble of creating, collecting, organizing, and
renaming many items from some 4 family generations so far. They
consist of .jpg pictures, .pdf, .txt, & .doc records, even .mp4
clips. I have re-named them by year and content. For example -
Y1941-JOE SMITH FAM, Y1951-SAM JONES FAM TRIP TO COLO, Y1942- JOHN
CAMRY DIARY, etc. They are stored in folders, by year, and are stored
on hard drive, backed up on a memory stick.

Now then, I want to create an index to all this, showing folder names
by year, and file names therein. Windows Explorer seems only to show
single folder names with file names therein.
I want to show them all, and want to print same. This could also be
useful to show anything I may have missed oe duplicated.

Anyone suggest a program I can download to do this - preferably free?
Should be runnable in W7 aand W10.
Thank you
Tom
My failu


NSIS Error
Installer integrity chek has failed. Common causes include incomplete
download and damaged media. Contact the installer's author to obtain
a new copy. More information at: //nsis.sf.net/NSIS_Error
(I tried another download)

While I installed and used this app fine on my one W10 PC, I have
tried two additional install downloads of ptdirprn-setup.exe
on W7 and W10 on a separate multiboot PC, and get the same failure.
Suggests something wrong on that PC I would guess.

I went to:
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/mediawik...&redirec t=no

wherein there are a boat-load of suggestions including:

Clear your browser's cache.
Disable any download accelerators or managers and download the
installer again.
Rename the installer so it is a simple one-word name with no special
characters (without removing the .exe suffix)
Example: install.exe
Download the installer from another source approved by the software

Hi Tom

I already mentioned LS.exe.
(original home-page is gone)
It's only one exe with 112 kByte.
I'm using it since 2011.
Also under windows-7 and windows-10.
I can store it somewhere for you.
If you like send me an email to


Regards
Reinhard

Coreutils has an ls if you want one.

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/coreutils.htm

In Windows 10, you can install the bash shell (provided by Canonical)
and it would have an "ls" program too.

And an environment such as Cygwin, if you capture the "ls"
from there, plus the two Cygwin DLLs, you can erase the
entire Cygwin tree, and the three file package will continue
to do your "ls" for you.

There isn't a big shortage of "ls" (ports of "listdir") programs :-)

https://s17.postimg.org/5ro9je3of/gnuwin32_ls_exe.gif

If you prefer a different format, using the bash shell, you
could experiment with this approach:

find /mnt/C: -type d -exec ls -al -1 -d {} + | tee directories.txt
find /mnt/C: -type f -exec ls -al -1 {} + | tee filelist.txt

That's assuming I've correctly remembered the mount points
for the Windows drive letters, while you're in Bash shell... :-)

The output in that case, is one line per file, and includes a size field.
The first listing gives all the directories.
The second listing gives all the filenames.

I sometimes use this for scripting, to gather raw data.

Paul

Paul wrote:

Reinhard Skarbal wrote:
In article ,
says...
On Tue, 25 Apr 2017 08:30:07 -0400, wrote:

On Wed, 19 Apr 2017 05:11:16 -0400, wrote:

I have gone to the trouble of creating, collecting, organizing, and
renaming many items from some 4 family generations so far. They
consist of .jpg pictures, .pdf, .txt, & .doc records, even .mp4
clips. I have re-named them by year and content. For example -
Y1941-JOE SMITH FAM, Y1951-SAM JONES FAM TRIP TO COLO, Y1942- JOHN
CAMRY DIARY, etc. They are stored in folders, by year, and are stored
on hard drive, backed up on a memory stick.

Now then, I want to create an index to all this, showing folder names
by year, and file names therein. Windows Explorer seems only to show
single folder names with file names therein.
I want to show them all, and want to print same. This could also be
useful to show anything I may have missed oe duplicated.

Anyone suggest a program I can download to do this - preferably free?
Should be runnable in W7 aand W10.
Thank you
Tom
My failu


NSIS Error
Installer integrity chek has failed. Common causes include incomplete
download and damaged media. Contact the installer's author to obtain
a new copy. More information at: //nsis.sf.net/NSIS_Error
(I tried another download)

While I installed and used this app fine on my one W10 PC, I have
tried two additional install downloads of ptdirprn-setup.exe
on W7 and W10 on a separate multiboot PC, and get the same failure.
Suggests something wrong on that PC I would guess.

I went to:
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/mediawik...&redirec t=no

wherein there are a boat-load of suggestions including:

Clear your browser's cache.
Disable any download accelerators or managers and download the
installer again.
Rename the installer so it is a simple one-word name with no special
characters (without removing the .exe suffix)
Example: install.exe
Download the installer from another source approved by the software

Hi Tom

I already mentioned LS.exe.
(original home-page is gone)
It's only one exe with 112 kByte.
I'm using it since 2011.
Also under windows-7 and windows-10.
I can store it somewhere for you.
If you like send me an email to


Regards
Reinhard

Coreutils has an ls if you want one.

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/coreutils.htm

In Windows 10, you can install the bash shell (provided by Canonical)
and it would have an "ls" program too.

And an environment such as Cygwin, if you capture the "ls"
from there, plus the two Cygwin DLLs, you can erase the
entire Cygwin tree, and the three file package will continue
to do your "ls" for you.

There isn't a big shortage of "ls" (ports of "listdir") programs :-)

https://s17.postimg.org/5ro9je3of/gnuwin32_ls_exe.gif

If you prefer a different format, using the bash shell, you
could experiment with this approach:

find /mnt/C: -type d -exec ls -al -1 -d {} + | tee directories.txt
find /mnt/C: -type f -exec ls -al -1 {} + | tee filelist.txt

That's assuming I've correctly remembered the mount points
for the Windows drive letters, while you're in Bash shell... :-)

The output in that case, is one line per file, and includes a size field.
The first listing gives all the directories.
The second listing gives all the filenames.

I sometimes use this for scripting, to gather raw data.

Paul

The OP does not want a console-mode utility (and why he doesn't want to
use tree.exe already there) but something with a GUI. Okay, some of us
don't care but I know folks that get lost in all the command-line args
or switches for ffmpeg and prefer a GUI front-end to show them all those
those args and switches.

"I'd prefer a program over DOS commands."

"Program" probably means a GUI'ed program. DOS aka command-line aka
console-mode executables are also programs.

On Sat, 29 Apr 2017 14:41:10 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:

Paul wrote:

Reinhard Skarbal wrote:
In article ,
says...
On Tue, 25 Apr 2017 08:30:07 -0400, wrote:

On Wed, 19 Apr 2017 05:11:16 -0400, wrote:

I have gone to the trouble of creating, collecting, organizing, and
renaming many items from some 4 family generations so far. They
consist of .jpg pictures, .pdf, .txt, & .doc records, even .mp4
clips. I have re-named them by year and content. For example -
Y1941-JOE SMITH FAM, Y1951-SAM JONES FAM TRIP TO COLO, Y1942- JOHN
CAMRY DIARY, etc. They are stored in folders, by year, and are stored
on hard drive, backed up on a memory stick.

Now then, I want to create an index to all this, showing folder names
by year, and file names therein. Windows Explorer seems only to show
single folder names with file names therein.
I want to show them all, and want to print same. This could also be
useful to show anything I may have missed oe duplicated.

Anyone suggest a program I can download to do this - preferably free?
Should be runnable in W7 aand W10.
Thank you
Tom
My failu


NSIS Error
Installer integrity chek has failed. Common causes include incomplete
download and damaged media. Contact the installer's author to obtain
a new copy. More information at: //nsis.sf.net/NSIS_Error
(I tried another download)

While I installed and used this app fine on my one W10 PC, I have
tried two additional install downloads of ptdirprn-setup.exe
on W7 and W10 on a separate multiboot PC, and get the same failure.
Suggests something wrong on that PC I would guess.

I went to:
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/mediawik...&redirec t=no

wherein there are a boat-load of suggestions including:

Clear your browser's cache.
Disable any download accelerators or managers and download the
installer again.
Rename the installer so it is a simple one-word name with no special
characters (without removing the .exe suffix)
Example: install.exe
Download the installer from another source approved by the software

Hi Tom

I already mentioned LS.exe.
(original home-page is gone)
It's only one exe with 112 kByte.
I'm using it since 2011.
Also under windows-7 and windows-10.
I can store it somewhere for you.
If you like send me an email to


Regards
Reinhard

Coreutils has an ls if you want one.

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/coreutils.htm

In Windows 10, you can install the bash shell (provided by Canonical)
and it would have an "ls" program too.

And an environment such as Cygwin, if you capture the "ls"
from there, plus the two Cygwin DLLs, you can erase the
entire Cygwin tree, and the three file package will continue
to do your "ls" for you.

There isn't a big shortage of "ls" (ports of "listdir") programs :-)

https://s17.postimg.org/5ro9je3of/gnuwin32_ls_exe.gif

If you prefer a different format, using the bash shell, you
could experiment with this approach:

find /mnt/C: -type d -exec ls -al -1 -d {} + | tee directories.txt
find /mnt/C: -type f -exec ls -al -1 {} + | tee filelist.txt

That's assuming I've correctly remembered the mount points
for the Windows drive letters, while you're in Bash shell... :-)

The output in that case, is one line per file, and includes a size field.
The first listing gives all the directories.
The second listing gives all the filenames.

I sometimes use this for scripting, to gather raw data.

Paul

The OP does not want a console-mode utility (and why he doesn't want to
use tree.exe already there) but something with a GUI. Okay, some of us
don't care but I know folks that get lost in all the command-line args
or switches for ffmpeg and prefer a GUI front-end to show them all those
those args and switches.

"I'd prefer a program over DOS commands."

"Program" probably means a GUI'ed program. DOS aka command-line aka
console-mode executables are also programs.


This is scary:

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/sta...kzip-4347.html

Tom

wrote:

This is scary:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/sta...kzip-4347.html

That looks like a static help page. It is not showing you a result
based on a scan of ls.exe that you submitted to them. There is no way
to submit an exhibit to them. Run ls.exe through virustotal.com.

wrote:

This is scary:

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/sta...kzip-4347.html

Tom

Of course.

We use "Safe Hex" here as an operating procedure, but
in 2017, life comes with *no* guarantees.

*******

Your first line of defense is *backups*.

1) Full machine backup. To reduce recovery time.

2) To an external drive. Drive is to be unplugged
when not making the actual backup. Do *not* leave
it plugged in, and the drive letter visible.

3) Alternate the backup drives. Minimum two drives,
for any degree of certainty. That's in case something
happens *during* a backup you're running and you
don't notice. I have backups here that are two years
old, and you might not believe it, but I've actually
needed those.

The reason for this is "Locky Ransomware".

A poster in one of the other groups, got hit by
Locky about two months ago. He asked a question
about "suddenly seeing a lot of files with a
certain file extension". Immediately I was worried,
I looked it up, and damn if that isn't a signature for
Locky. Locky has multiple versions, each with its own
file extension you would not normally see on a computer.

Later, he mumbled something about a three-month
old backup, and didn't go into any more details about
his recovery operation and progress. he was *not* happy.

Locky can spread through your entire computing room,
if you're a complete klutz. There have also been cases
where Dropbox copies of things got encrypted too.
Ransomware is nasty, just not quite as nasty as Sality.

*******

The rest of it, is only approximately useful. Yes, you
can scan the **** out of downloaded files, and still
be infected. AV products need time to add virus definitions,
and that window of opportunity allows "ls.exe" to attack :-)

Trace your program downloads back to the source. Don't
get them from "Download3K" if gnuwin32 has the originals.
And so on. And be careful clicking random green boxes
on downloader sites. Some people just cannot figure out
what to click - and training them does not help. They
keep coming back - infected.

On occasion, I give checksums for programs I might talk about.
For example, the "clean" copy of Imgburn I tell people about,
I usually give the checksums for that program so they won't
get a bad one. But I cannot be doing that on a continuous
basis. I'm not your mom.

You can scan software on virustotal.com , but as in the first
paragraph, this is only approximately useful. It's no guarantee.

I already described several ways to get your very own ls.exe.
With relatively low risk. I didn't send you to Download3K
to get one, or get one from CNET with adware bundled with it.
The software may be crusty, but it's been around for a while,
and the methods of getting it are reasonable. Not a total
crap shoot.

*******

Do I go around testing malware, by executing things people
tell me are infected ? Absolutely not! My defenses here,
aren't to be tested just for "fun". Some malwares
can modify firmware (flash devices) inside the computer,
for which recovery might be very difficult. I won't
even run an OpenCandy, if I download one, just to see what
it's going to do.

I've only been tipped over once here. And it wasn't even
by ls.exe either. I was using a web browser and surfing at
the time. And visited the top level page of a *commercial*
web site (msi.com), with its own IT staff. There was a redirect
loaded at the top level by hackers, and after that... "that's all
she wrote". It took a while to get the box upright again.
Back in those days, I didn't have an extensive backup set.
I was still being careful back then, but you'd never know it.

Today, a broad exposure surface, is Adobe Flash. My primary
browser doesn't have a Flash plugin in it... Can you guess why ?
The other browsers run Adobe Flash, and every time I run one
of those browsers, I'm taking a risk.

Paul

In article ,
says...

This is scary:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/sta...kzip-4347.html
Tom

BTW :
https://www.virustotal.com doesn't find any problem with my old version
of LS.exe. I think there ae lots of LS.exe

Regards
Reinhard