I've just been doing some "housekeeping" on my genealogy files and renaming them and making them more accessible to a backup! As suggested by your good selves:-) BUT. When I load them onto my other PC far away, I'm going to have a lot of duplicates, aren't I? With different file names but same data. IF I sort them by modified as suggested by your good selves, will that help again??? I fear I am going to get into a terrible muddle and might just lose VITAL stuff. Is there any way of printing out complete lists of what folders are on the C or D drive? Print Screen wont help here.......... Then I can compare the old with the new and rename the old folders on the other far away PC accordingly. Or am I going to make a complete dogs breakfast of the whole thing and I shouldn't have "fiddled" in the first place??? (Sometimes when I "fiddle" with PC, I crash it and I usually have to pay 50 quid to get a fella to put it right again! In this instance, I am working with my D drive which is my data drive. The crashing usually occurs in the C drive where all the programmes lurk.) genlistlass

There are a number of ways you can print out a list of files on a hard drive which will allow you to compare the contents with those on your other computer. One that I use regularly is called DirPrinting. It is a free download and available from Majusoft at: http://www.majusoft.de/DirPrinting/index_en.htm [QUOTE] DirPrinting is a simple program for viewing and printing directories. It offers a drive/directory window and a file list, which can be arranged and sorted according to various criteria. This list can be send (sic) to any printer (printing preview and storage included). Functions as "copy to clipboard", "save as file", "send by email", "include subdirectories" or "file filter" are all available. [END QUOTE] My main use of that program is to create indexes of CD's to "paste" into MS Excel which it does admirably. I simply create an index, copy it to the clipboard, then open Excel and paste it into a workbook - very quick, very neat, and efficient. Another option is a free utility from Karen Kenworthy (formerly of the now defunct Windows magazine). It is called Directory Printer (what else :-)?) and though not quite as good as DirPrinting can also do the job you wish to do: http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptdirprn.asp [QUOTE] Karen's Directory Printer can print the name of every file on a drive, along with the file's size, date and time of last modification, and attributes (Read-Only, Hidden, System and Archive)! And now, the list of files can be sorted by name, size, date created, date last modified, or date of last access. [END QUOTE] For those who haven't visited Karen's page (or heard of her) she has a number of very useful utilities she has created, all available for free download on her main site, under FREE DOWNLOADS (just click HOME on the above site). Another similar program (recommended to me recently by Art) is Directory Lister. It too is free and can be found at: http://freeware.prv.pl/ [QUOTE] Directory Lister lets you list all or selected (like mp3) files you have in selected directories on your hard disk, cd-rom, floppy and wherever you want into text or html file. It is a freeware program, so you can give it to anybody at no price. You can: choose which items you want to list - subdirs, size, date, time, attributes, directory names, directory size, full path, crc32 value choose the width of these fields, choose which directories you want to include, choose if you want a text file or html file, choose sort options, choose mask for filenames, for example, you can list all your mp3 files you have using *.mp3 mask, generate listing for each processed directory, load and save your settings, list files from command line (for FTP owners). [END QUOTE] This one is very efficient and detailed. I found it to be not as simple to use for my CD indexing as DirPrinting but it may suit your purposes. Lance -----Original Message----- From: genlistlass [mailto:genlistlass@hotmail.com] Sent: Sunday, 25 July 2004 16:35 To: GEN-COMP-TIPS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [Gen-Comp-Tips] Renaming files I've just been doing some "housekeeping" on my genealogy files and renaming them and making them more accessible to a backup! As suggested by your good selves:-) BUT. When I load them onto my other PC far away, I'm going to have a lot of duplicates, aren't I? With different file names but same data. IF I sort them by modified as suggested by your good selves, will that help again??? I fear I am going to get into a terrible muddle and might just lose VITAL stuff. Is there any way of printing out complete lists of what folders are on the C or D drive? Print Screen wont help here.......... Then I can compare the old with the new and rename the old folders on the other far away PC accordingly. Or am I going to make a complete dogs breakfast of the whole thing and I shouldn't have "fiddled" in the first place??? (Sometimes when I "fiddle" with PC, I crash it and I usually have to pay 50 quid to get a fella to put it right again! In this instance, I am working with my D drive which is my data drive. The crashing usually occurs in the C drive where all the programmes lurk.) genlistlass --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0431-3, 2004-07-31 Tested on: 1/08/2004 4:04:11 PM avast! - copyright (c) 2000-2004 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com