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Hi i am looking for a bit of computer advice. I have an external hard drive with some films on it and would like to copy the names of the film to word doc or similar, so that should the hard drive drop its guts I would be able to source the films again. As there are quite a few film I dont want to have to type them all out
What OS are you running? Windows?
Are all the films in the same folder? Assuming yes and a windows user, select all the files (ctrl + A) then hold shift while right clicking on the selected files. In the menu that appears you should then be able to 'copy as path' and paste the list of filenames into word.
If its windows
Copy this
dir /b > fileslist.txt
Into notepad and save it as a .bat
Place it in the folder and "open" it. It will create a text file of all the files.
I can't remember if that makes a list of everything including subfolders or not but its relatively easy to change.
Other options allow you to remove the filepaths etc.
Its like using the command line but you can reuse it.
You will need to also specify the /s flag to grab any files in subdirectories.
If its windows
Copy this
dir /b > fileslist.txt
Into notepad and save it as a .bat
Place it in the folder and “open” it. It will create a text file of all the files.
Exactly this only you don't need to mess about with batch files. Open a CMD prompt in the folder you need to catalogue and type in the dir command.