When migrating my clients from one form of data storage to another I take the opportunity to do a quick audit on their files and see if there is anything that we can leave out. To do this it is handy to create a list of all the files in a directory.
To perform a quick and easy data dump of all files in a folder all you need to do is:
- Go to the start menu
- In the search bar type in ‘cmd’
- Open the command prompt
- Enter the following code:
C:
\>dir /s /b>filelist.txt
Where dir is the directory that you would like to copy and filelist.txt is the name of the file you would like to output to. Upon executing this command a new file will appear in the directory that you are copying from titled ‘filelist’ or whichever name you want the file to have!
Example:
To copy the list of files and subfolders out of the Adobe Acrobat folder in program files you would enter:
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 9.0 /s /b>adobefilelist.csv
Notice the CSV extension? Yes you can also export directly to excel doing this.
