So I'm at work, and i'm trying to open a directory to view a list of files in a much simpler manner. When I type in the dir to open the folder I need to access, such as "X:\BBERINGER\DROPBOX" I get the following message "Volume in drive X is DATA : Volume in Serial Number is ******" *i dont need to reveal that. But yeah, any help would be great as to needing to manually write a list of files incase we experience hardware failure.
Thanks in advance!!!
Aw, heck... I thought the chap hoping to make a living writing batch files would have helped you with this. Because you mention dir I assume you are using the cmd window? Well, these two lines in a batch file will give you a listing.. put it on your desktop and simply drag any drive or folder from explorer into it.
dir %1 | more +3 >> c:\test.txt
start c:\test.txt
With a bit of fiddling you can remove the leading date/time charaters also.
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