Movies

[Kedash00]

I have a hard drive with alot of movies on it, and people are wanting to know what movies i have so i'm trying to import a list of all my movies into excel or word or any program really.

But i can't figure out how to copy all the names of the movies and paste them into the other program.

So far i've tried to put all the movies into list view, select all, copy, and paste into excel but it wont paste.
Also tried to print screen and paste, but no go there also.
Googled it but nothing there either.

Anyone have any idea of how i would copy the movie list names and paste them into another program without typing every one of them in?
It's way to many to type them all in manually.

Thanks in advance

[shadewalker]

open a new cmd window and navigate to the folder with all your moves. then type

dir > MyFile.txt

you should be able to open that file with excel.

[Littleburst]

Could be that I'm a noob, but I'm not sure what you mean exactly shadewalker. Or how exactly I'm supposed to type in into cmd. I'd be very interested in having a list of my own movies aswell.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

WINDOWS+R keys to open the RUN dialog.
Type "cmd" and click OK.
e:
cd \data\mymovies
dir /b /s > movielist.txt

[shadewalker]

Ugh has a good explanation and good additions with the \b \s but ill try to clarify some more if needed.

Run the cmd.exe program (normaly located at C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe) the WINDOWS + R shortcut is just an easier way to get to this file and launch it.
this will get you a command prompt window.

CD will "change directories" to wherever you tell it to, so you may have something like

cd C:\Users\MyUserName\Movies

the DIR command will list all files and folders in the current directory (the one we navigated to with the CD command). Normal it just prints the directory contents to the screen, but the ">" will direct the output to the file name specified rather than the screen. So when you execute the DIR > MovieList.txt it creates a text file with a listing of all the files in the directory. The \b and \s options just clean up the output to make it more user friendly.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Oh, forgot to mention. If your movies folder isn't writable by non-administrators, you'll have to launch the command prompt as Administrator for the redirect-to-file to work.

[Littleburst]

I'm probably just making a stupid mistake, but this is what I did:
My movie folder is H:/Films
Run cmd as admin.
Typed in:
cd H:/Films
dir /b /s > movielist.txt

The movelist.txt shows a list of all my users\me files. I'm asuming something went wrong with changing the folder?

[MiRai]

I'm probably just making a stupid mistake, but this is what I did:
My movie folder is H:/Films
Run cmd as admin.
Typed in:
cd H:/Films
dir /b /s > movielist.txt

The movelist.txt shows a list of all my users\me files. I'm asuming something went wrong with changing the folder?

You have to switch to that drive before you can jump to the directory. So type:

H:

Then...

cd Films

Then...

 dir /b /s > movielist.txt

[Littleburst]

You have to switch to that drive before you can jump to the directory. So type:

H:

Then...

cd Films

Then...

 dir /b /s > movielist.txt

I'm affraid it's not working still, thanks for the effort though

Quite probably a problem on my side.