Print a list of directories from file manager?

[Wrace]

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

[AsheGuy]

magicbus wrote:
Windows snipping tool is great but I don't think you can scroll beyond what you are viewing.
Dave

Correct, you can only do a screen clip of what is on the screen, no scrolling.

Just out of curiosity, why do you need directories printed out?

[SteveB]

The Firefox trick works great. I had to print a list of over 1000 files and found that solution on a search of the internet.

[magicbus]

Windows snipping tool is great but I don't think you can scroll beyond what you are viewing. I think the best idea is the CMD window as gkainz suggested and directing the output to a txt file as shown above. You can then paste it to a word doc or spreadsheet.

Dave

[Wrace]

I've been playing with the windows snipping tool and I can't figure out how to get it to scroll down the screen. Just playing with it trying to capture a webpage and the page is several pages long on the screen.

gkainz, I haven't worked up the nerve to try your method yet. 🙂

[Wrace]

ccchuck wrote:
a quick and dirty solution, "pull" the directory you want to print into firefox. A screen listing all files therein will appear.

How is this done?

[Wrace]

gkainz wrote:
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?

I'm thinking just the directories would be ok.

[TenOC]

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.

[ccchuck]

a quick and dirty solution, "pull" the directory you want to print into firefox. A screen listing all files therein will appear.

[gkainz]

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