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04 Jul 09 - 10:12 PM (#2671770) Subject: Tech: Windoze folder question From: michaelr On my hard drive I have a folder called "Songbook" which contains lyrics to hundreds of songs in Word documents. I'd like to print a list of titles of all the songs contained in the folder, but I can't figure out how to tell Windows to do this. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance! |
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05 Jul 09 - 12:32 AM (#2671821) Subject: RE: Tech: Windoze folder question From: Amergin Type them all out into a word document.... |
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05 Jul 09 - 01:27 AM (#2671833) Subject: RE: Tech: Windoze folder question From: Dave the Gnome Presuming the song title is the same as the filename do a dir of the folder using the command prompt and redirect the output to a file or printer. EG - c:\> cd big song folder c:\big song folder>dir > listofsongs.txt OR c:\big song folder>dir | print Yes? DeG |
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05 Jul 09 - 01:39 AM (#2671837) Subject: RE: Tech: Windoze folder question From: Dave the Gnome BTW - dir will probably give more details than you want so, on reflection, send it to a file and then import the file into, for instance, a spreadsheet where you can isolate just the column you want. I could do it on the command line in unix but I don't know the equivalent dos commands (sad or what?) :D |
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05 Jul 09 - 05:28 AM (#2671897) Subject: RE: Tech: Windoze folder question From: Mick Pearce (MCP) Dave If you start a command prompt and do: cd songFolder dir /b >file.txt Will put just the names into file.txt (in the same directory), which you can then print or tidy up as you desire. Mick |
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05 Jul 09 - 08:48 AM (#2671962) Subject: RE: Tech: Windoze folder question From: Bonzo3legs There is a page on this somewhere in the Microsoft Knowledge Base which I used. |
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05 Jul 09 - 09:02 AM (#2671966) Subject: RE: Tech: Windoze folder question From: olddude you can also open the folder, maximize it, then hit control-C to screen capture the image open up word hit Control-V this will paste the image into word which should be a list of your files Dan |
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05 Jul 09 - 09:03 AM (#2671967) Subject: RE: Tech: Windoze folder question From: Bonzo3legs dir /a /b /-p /o:gen >C:\Temp\List_Files.txt start notepad C:\Temp\List_Files.txt The above batch file works for me. |
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05 Jul 09 - 11:39 AM (#2672042) Subject: RE: Tech: Windoze folder question From: VirginiaTam As I make each document in WORD, I copy the title into EXCEL spreadsheet titled AA songlist to keep it at the top folder. Now I can sort by title or type/genre (UK Trad, American folk, blues, seasonal, etc.) or artist/author. I keep this index spreadsheet in the same folder as the songs. One day I may make each title in the spreadsheet a link to the actual document. A number of my song sheets (have links to sound files or you tube videos, so melody is a mouse click away when I want to practise, but don't remember the tune). |
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05 Jul 09 - 12:59 PM (#2672107) Subject: RE: Tech: Windoze folder question From: michaelr Please, I am grateful for the help (except yours, Amergin, thanks for nothing), but in English please! I have no clue what "do a dir" means or how to "start a command prompt". Bonzo, your post is unintelligible to me. Please explain. Thanks again, Michael |
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05 Jul 09 - 01:04 PM (#2672108) Subject: RE: Tech: Windoze folder question From: michaelr Olddude, I tried what you said, but nothing pasted into the Word document. |
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05 Jul 09 - 01:32 PM (#2672123) Subject: RE: Tech: Windoze folder question From: Mick Pearce (MCP) michaelr The Command Prompt is the DOS command window available through Windows. Usually you can access it from the Start Menus with the sequence: Start/All Programs/Accessories/Command Prompt. It will open a window showing the DOS prompt (C:\> - if it's not showing C\>, type the command cd .. until it does). Type in the command (followed by Enter/Return): cd /songfolder where songfolder is the name of the folder, this will change the current directory to be your songfolder directory, and the prompt will probably change to something like: C:\songfolder> Now type the command: dir /b >files.txt this will make a list of the names of files in the folder, 1 per line, without any extra information and put the list in a file called files.txt (you can use any name you like for this). You can then open the file (from Windows now) in Word/Notepad/Wordpad/Excel or whatever you want to read it in. Type the command: exit to close the Command Prompt window, or just click the close X at the top right of the window. Mick |
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05 Jul 09 - 02:54 PM (#2672160) Subject: RE: Tech: Windoze folder question From: michaelr Mick, you're a star. Thanks a million! Michael |
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05 Jul 09 - 05:00 PM (#2672228) Subject: RE: Tech: Windoze folder question From: Bonzo3legs I don't understand it either, I just followed instructions. |
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05 Jul 09 - 05:03 PM (#2672232) Subject: RE: Tech: Windoze folder question From: dick greenhaus THis is the kind of thing that was a breeze in the old 1988 DOS version of askSam---one reason I'm still using it. |
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05 Jul 09 - 07:47 PM (#2672317) Subject: RE: Tech: Windoze folder question From: michaelr OK, Bonzo, but I couldn't follow them because I didn't know where to start. Mick explained it so I could. I appreciate your trying to help, anyway. |
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06 Jul 09 - 02:20 AM (#2672463) Subject: RE: Tech: Windoze folder question From: VirginiaTam Ahhh, the good old days of DOS. I used to edit US Federal Code in DOS and tables had to be formatted using MAPs commands. One step up from chisel and stone we used to say. Why did I not take out the brackets in last sentence in earlier post. Sunday was brain free day. Not good for anything but ironing and singing, which I did. Glad it is sorted Michael. |