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General Question: Is there a way to create a text file showing the contents of a drive?

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Business-Web says

I have six drives with a variety of things on them, and I’d like to be able to just take a look at a list of their contents if possible.

Is there a way to create a text file from the contents of a drive?

I’m not worried about sizes or dates added, I just need to have a hierachy list, showing what is on the drive and in which folders ont hat drive.

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WebFactory says
dir /b > file.txt will dump a list of all files from the current folder into a txt file. Unfortunately it doesn’t have a recursive option. But it’s enough to let you start Googling :)

Edit: you need this http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/OS-Enhancements/Folder-Size-Shell-Extension.shtml

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Business-Web says

Thanks, that’s a great start and the boss (aka fiance) will be happy as she volunteered to type it all by hand.

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JeffreyWay moderator says

And, of course, on the Mac, you’d want to do something like ls > saved.txt

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