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Archiving a few drives - way to printout folder and file lists?

 
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Jan 21, 2007 14:30 |  #1

I'm about to archive a couple drives of data and want to be able to print out folder and file lists for reference so I don't have to go digging too far to find what I need. Any apps for Mac that can do this? Any simple way to do this? Any ideas will be appreciated.




  
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Jan 21, 2007 14:38 |  #2

Sorry, don't use Mac's, but could you not just do a simple "screen print" of the folder?


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Jan 21, 2007 16:20 |  #3

I guess you could do that, but it's not as "elegant" a solution as I was hoping for. The key here is organization.




  
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Jan 21, 2007 16:25 |  #4

ls -lr | lp
from a command prompt? I'm assuming OS X and couldn't swear to the exact switches; IIRC -lr is "long" and "recursive". There's a switch for pr to tell it how many lines/page, but my xNIX is rusty. That's a vertical bar between the "ls -lr" and the "lp", BTW, not a lower case "L".

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Jan 21, 2007 16:25 |  #5

The PC has a way, using old DOS-style commands, to direct a listing of the files on a drive to a file. That file can then be sucked into Excel or something like that. I would suspect that the MAC has similar capability.


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Jan 21, 2007 16:58 |  #6

Advanced user commands... the downfall of the mac ;).

Actually, assuming *.* is still a wildcard for macs (no idea if it is or not), and assuming you're running OSX:

1. Open the Finder window and display the file list you wish to print
2. Click on Edit - Select All
3. Click on Edit - Copy
4. Open a word processing program such as TextEdit and make sure it is set for Plain Text format (e.g. in TextEdit select Format - Make Plain Text)
5. In your word processing program, click on Edit - Paste
6. Print the document


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