File list output

[Danny Lx]

How can I copy the list of files in Windows Explorer to a file for later editing?

Many thanks!

[Fed]

Highlight the files, right click & select copy, create the new directory, open it, right click & select paste.
Is this a trick question?  

[Danny Lx]

Thank you, Fed.  

You can be rest assured that this is not a trick question because all I need is the names of the files (I need to make a list of files on my computer), not the files.

I knew how to do it in DOS (which I forgot) but not anymore with Windows.

[Fed]

OK, this is a strange request but I guess you have your reasons.
Open a dos promt, navigate to the directory containing the files and type dir to display the files.
Then highlight the files with the left mouse button.
Then right click.
Then go back into Windows & open a notepad or something.
Then a single left click to get a curser in your notepad.
Then hit Ctrl + V to paste.

Short answer, in a dos screen, right click copies highlighted stuff. (It pastes too)

[Danny Lx]

I tried but cannot cut and paste from the DOS screen.  Is there something I have missed?

[Danny Lx]

I want to show you why I need to do this.

While I am backing up some files from my computer, I also want to make a catalogue of the CDs, showing what files are contained in each CD.

Is there a better way to do it?

[Fed]

I bet there's software that will do all that for you.
Same for picture albums I think.
Let's see what other posters come up with, this girlie stuff ain't really my thing.   Just kidding.

[viking]

I don't know how to do it in Windows Explorer.


But, with command prompt, here it is.
You may check the command prompt command "dir".
For example, dir /B shows you just the names of the files in the current directory.

Start->Run->here you write "cmd" (whithout the quotation marks).
Then use the comand "cd" to change to your current directory, that one you want to list. And there use the command "dir /B".  Or "dir /B /S" -- recursively list the file names, directory and subdirectory names of the current folder.
"dir /?" shows you and explains the options of the dir command.

[merlin_2]

http://www.computerhope.com/xcopyhlp.htm#04

[Fed]

Different dos maybe, I'm using cmd.exe.