Create txt file of folder contents

Hi Guys long time no see, hope you are all well

I want to create an index of movies on a NAS drive.
I have a folder G:\Shared Videos on a NAS which has 23 sub folders inside (Film Genres) and a total of 1100 .Mp4 movies spread across these folders. I need a .bat file I can run from inside G:\Shared Videos that will list the 1100 movies, name only (not the Genre Folders or location) in alphabetical order to a text file I can then import to excel to create an Index. Is this possible. I've tried a few I have found searching but there not quite doing what I want.

Danny

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Yes tried it Thanks. that copies the whole path I only want the file names

I have got as far as this but this is only copying the 23 folder names in the public folder to a .txt file which means I would have to run the .bat in all 23 folders and then organise them alphabetically. I need it to omit the folders and list the .Mp4s in the folders only

Code:

dir /a /b /-p /o:gen >C:\WINDOWS\Temp\file_list.txt
start notepad C:\WINDOWS\Temp\file_list.txt

Try this ahk script. Instead of using notepad I suggest free EditPad Lite 7. It has sorting and duplicate line elimination.

To use the script, compile to exe and copy the exe to the root folder. Open command prompt tp root folder and type GetMovieNames.exe. I suggest erasing your text file first as this appends to it.

Code:

SendMode Input
SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir%


Loop,%A_WorkingDir%,2,1
    Run %comspec% /c  "dir /a /b /-p /o:gen >>C:\WINDOWS\Temp\file_list.txt"

You can download AutoHotkey_L here
AutoHotkey Downloads

There are forums. You can post the script and ask for help embellishing it. For example deleting the results file on start and filtering out the folder names etc..

Edit: It's worth messing around with ahk since you can make your own hotkey tray utilities to do just about anything when you press a key combination.

Edit2: ahk and the forums are free. An online email like hotmail or outlook is fine for free registration to the forums.

MilesAhead said:

Try this ahk script. Instead of using notepad I suggest free EditPad Lite 7. It has sorting and duplicate line elimination.

To use the script, compile to exe and copy the exe to the root folder. Open command prompt tp root folder and type GetMovieNames.exe. I suggest erasing your text file first as this appends to it.

Code:

SendMode Input
SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir%


Loop,%A_WorkingDir%,2,1
    Run %comspec% /c  "dir /a /b /-p /o:gen >>C:\WINDOWS\Temp\file_list.txt"

You can download AutoHotkey_L here
AutoHotkey Downloads

There are forums. You can post the script and ask for help embellishing it. For example deleting the results file on start and filtering out the folder names etc..

Edit: It's worth messing around with ahk since you can make your own hotkey tray utilities to do just about anything when you press a key combination.

Edit2: ahk and the forums are free. An online email like hotmail or outlook is fine for free registration to the forums.

Thanks Miles will give it a go, one question why the >> oppose to my single

Hi,

I must confess that I cannot write a script for you but I have another solution that works for me.

I have installed Saleen Video Manager as a portable app and it stores videos that are added to the library in an Access Database (.mdb format).



It's possible to open this database using any software that can open and view .mdb files.

It's then possible to choose columns and sort by path or alphabetically and export to .csv.

You'd only need to sort by path if you added more than one directory to the library.



Here's a screenshot of part of an exported list of files in .mdb and .csv formats/ views.

Got it in the end was missing the s switch. Anyone needs it copy to notepad and save as .bat and run from the directory you want the list of files for

Code:

dir /a:-d /b /s /o:n >C:\WINDOWS\Temp\file_list.txt
start notepad C:\WINDOWS\Temp\file_list.txt

Cheers Guys

Danny

The >> is append to file. The > will overwrite the file.

Also if they are all the same file type such as .mp4 use dir *.mp4 /s instead of just dir /s

Thanks Miles any way to get the list without the file path just the Mp4 name

See if this works

Code:

SendMode Input
SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir%
ResultFile := "C:\WINDOWS\Temp\file_list.txt"

Loop,*.mp4,,1
    FileAppend,%A_LoopFlename%`n,%ResultFile%

Edit: I added the "`n" to the "%A_LoopFlename%" in the script so it should write one name per line to the text file.

Edit2: I haven't tested it. Should be simple enough but you never know. If it doesn't work as expected post and I'll try to fix it up. :)