Does anyone know how I can create a file containing a list of all folders
and files on my harddisk.

Hope someone can help me.

Thanks!

/Kim

Kim Millard <km@indbakke.dk> wrote:

> Does anyone know how I can create a file containing a list of all folders
> and files on my harddisk.

You are looking for software that creates a "disk catalog". Go to
MacUpdate <http://www.macupdate.com/> or VersionTracker
<http://www.versiontracker.com/> and do a search using that term.

Kim Millard wrote:
> Does anyone know how I can create a file containing a list of all folders
> and files on my harddisk.
>


I have serious doubts that you want _all_ files and folders on your
system, I expect that perhaps want you really want is a listing of all
files and folders in your home directory. If that's the case you can go
to Terminal (found in Applications/Utilities) and type in the following:

ls -R > ~/Documents/allMyFiles.txt

If I'm wrong and you _really_ do want all files/folders you can type the
following in terminal:

ls -RA / > ~Documents/allMyFiles.txt

Don't say I didn't warn you if you choose the latter of the two. You
will get every stinking file of the HDD. For more information on what
the above commands do, you can type "man ls" which will describe in
detail all the options for the ls command. In a nutshell though, ls
lists files, the -R option searches directories recursively, the -A
option lists all files except for two that are of little use to most
folks "." and "..". the > directs the output to a text file that it
will create in your Documents directory.

In article <417f7989$0$302$edfadb0f@dread12.news.tele.dk>,
"Kim Millard" <km@indbakke.dk> wrote:

> Does anyone know how I can create a file containing a list of all folders
> and files on my harddisk.

You don't say which operating system you are using, however if it is OS
X, and you are willing to use Terminal, then I'd suggest using du
rather than ls You can redirect the output to a file with either.
However you are probably talking about a file containing something
between a quarter and a half million lines, one per file.

Perhaps it would be better to explain just what you are trying to
accomplish with such a list? You might get better suggestions,
especially regarding how to filter and find files.

It works fine with ls -R

Thanks everybody.

/Kim


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