hi i have 4 tb of movies on external hard drives most in avi format is it posible to print of a list of the titles without typing each and everyone

Start... Run... type 'cmd' and press enter.

Change to your external drive by typing 'e:' or 'f:' or whatever the drive letter is.

If you want to change to a sub directory, type 'cd movies' or whatever the directory/folder name is.

To export the directory listing to a file, type 'dir /b > c:\files.txt'. You can change c:\files.txt to any drive letter and folder you want.

Edit: do not type the quotes, just what's inside them.

Edited August 3, 200916 yr by surface

You want to print folder contents and this will do it but a manual operation - there is software available if you want to pay for it. Making a list view will give you the titles.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/196628

Edited August 3, 200916 yr by lopburi3

One way that might work.

Open notepad and type in

dir %1 /s /b /l > %1\..\file_list.txt

Save that file as "file_list.bat"

Copy it onto the drive with the files.

If your files are not already in a folder, create one and copy the files to it.

Drag that folder into "file_list.bat" and it should generate "file_list.txt".

You can then use 'Edit/Replace' to delete all the drive letter and folder names.

I use a free software called MovieManager from RockSolidSoftware that does movie lists effortlessly off hard discs with folders saved much like torrent downloaded stuff. It also does synopsis links with imdb.

http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptdirprn.asp

http://www.spadixbd.com/freetools/jdirprint.htm

thanks all will post back after trying them

I could not get MovieManager to install in Windows 7 (could not open multiple files) so can 't say how that works. A shareware program called eXtreme Movie Manager seems good and price of 10 euro does not appear excessive.

I could not get MovieManager to install in Windows 7

Thanks for that info. I am using Vista ok. They do regular updates so I hope when W7 is out in Oct the program will work. I noticed they recently upgraded following a subtle change at the imdb web site.

I could not get MovieManager to install in Windows 7 (could not open multiple files) so can 't say how that works. A shareware program called eXtreme Movie Manager seems good and price of 10 euro does not appear excessive.

www.spadixbd.com try this i find this is the best for me from katana"s reply

i use xp and tired moviemanager but JDirPrinter for me is easy and simple and is freeware

Edited August 4, 200916 yr by djc45

http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptdirprn.asp

http://www.spadixbd.com/freetools/jdirprint.htm

thanks for theese they both work well and are freeware

I could not get MovieManager to install in Windows 7 (could not open multiple files) so can 't say how that works. A shareware program called eXtreme Movie Manager seems good and price of 10 euro does not appear excessive.

thanks for the info how do you find windows 7 is it better thanxp or vista?

Yes - it is much better - had been using Vista for several years and it was much better than XP (almost never a blue screen of death - but needed a lot of memory - 7 does not need all that memory and just about everything works with it).

As for that program, which is really a movie manager software, downloaded a new copy and got it to install but did not like it so tried the "Pro" version but then get the same unable to open files problem. Did not bother but probably could have got it working.

The other program, eXtreme Movie Manager I gave up on. Just too complex and appears to take a learning curve on Photo Shop model (hard). And the instructions required video - and the video required a special decoder - and when played had no sound!

I did find an excellent and free move database program however. It is Coolector and designed for catalog of your DVD's and includes a movie database of 54 thousand titles. It will not catalog from hard drive but easy entry from keyboard.

Edited August 5, 200916 yr by lopburi3

Yes - it is much better - had been using Vista for several years and it was much better than XP (almost never a blue screen of death - but needed a lot of memory - 7 does not need all that memory and just about everything works with it).

As for that program, which is really a movie manager software, downloaded a new copy and got it to install but did not like it so tried the "Pro" version but then get the same unable to open files problem. Did not bother but probably could have got it working.

The other program, eXtreme Movie Manager I gave up on. Just too complex and appears to take a learning curve on Photo Shop model (hard). And the instructions required video - and the video required a special decoder - and when played had no sound!

I did find an excellent and free move database program however. It is Coolector and designed for catalog of your DVD's and includes a movie database of 54 thousand titles. It will not catalog from hard drive but easy entry from keyboard.

thanks again for the info and i will try coolector did you try the one from spadixbd.com i have found that very good for my needs

I did not need to list a directory so have not tried them but am sure they work well - one of the things that should be native to Windows but isn't. Geeks seem to try and block any attempt to use paper (computer provides a paperless society battle cry). But we have paper 100's of year old - how many computer programs/storage devices even last a decade? I love computers and we can not live life as we know it without them - but old tech still has its place.

This will create a pdf file which then can be printed off and its free and only 1.5mb in size................

http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp

I find it works best through Powerdesk...........also a free application

I did not need to list a directory so have not tried them but am sure they work well - one of the things that should be native to Windows but isn't. Geeks seem to try and block any attempt to use paper (computer provides a paperless society battle cry). But we have paper 100's of year old - how many computer programs/storage devices even last a decade? I love computers and we can not live life as we know it without them - but old tech still has its place.

i agree

with the jdprinter that list the contents of a directoru or a file it can be copied from the note pad into a word doc worth having a look at it cheers

Coolector software has updated today and is now able to list avi and catalog from computer hard drives.