im not very advanced when it comes to computers, and i would like to find how you can get a list of files from a folder into a document as a list. i have found a site which tells me how to do this, but i cannot figure out how to actually do it. can somebody please simplify this for me - i figured out pieces of it but it jumps ahead to quickly for me (somewhere between step one and two i think). whenever i try to select my command from the context menu, it says "(the file) is not a valid Win32 application" which suggests to me that i have somewere missed a step with creating the batch file
Creating File Lists
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gamerman4
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That is easy. All you ahve to do it paste the string dir /a /-p /o:gen >filelisting.txt into notepad. The Save As... it and name it (nameoffile).bat just name it whatever, make sure it is a .bat file though, to make it a bat file just type .bat after the filename when you save it. This will turn the txt document into a command. Put the .bat file into your WINDOWS folder then just follow the rest of the tutorial. I don't think the tutorial ever states to actually save it as a BAT file. Did this clear things up?
thanks for that! i had done it completely wrong before and had been trying to do it without the string in the file and instead in the file name or something
. now it works fine and should save me heaps of time. before i was copying and pasting the name of each file and i knew there must be a better way
. now it works fine and should save me heaps of time. before i was copying and pasting the name of each file and i knew there must be a better way