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Wrace
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Sep 15, 2018

Print a list of directories from file manager?

I want to print a list of some of the directories on my c:\.
For example I would like to print a list of all the directories under 'Documents', and all the directories under 'photos'. These lists extend well below the bottom of the screen (requires scrolling down)

What is the best way to do this?
Will the windows snipping tool do this?
Or other method?

Thanks

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  • Years ago I had a file manager program that allowed me to print to the printer or to a PDF file the list of files or list of directors or a number of wild card selections. Sorry to say I have forgot what the file manager program was called.

    I now use Total Commander (for all my file management task) which will do much of what you want using Mark>Group (if you want to use wildcards to mark only some files) or select all. Then Mark>Copy Selection to Clipboard. This is not as simple as the previous mention file manager.

    You may do a Google search and most will have a free trial copy.
  • a quick and dirty solution, "pull" the directory you want to print into firefox. A screen listing all files therein will appear.
  • Do you want all the directories in the TREE starting with DOCUMENTS and also starting with PHOTOS only? Or do you want the directory CONTENTS listed?

    In the DOS command window, change directory to Documents

    cd c:\... whatever ... \documents

    dir /s >doclist.txt

    dir /s displays the directory tree and contents, then the > pipes it to file named doclist.txt

    if you just want the directory names under DOCUMENTS, then

    dir /s /A:D >doclist.txt

    sorry, apparently no CODE box format on this forum ... the slash Capital A colon D gets turned into an emoji

    then print the file doclist.txt
    do the same for photos

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