Listing files in Windows 7

Win7 has a version of Windows Explorer for file management.

It allows for "view details" which will show the file details, you can order by date to see the most recent.

You may wish to use the options to turn on "show file extensions" to more easily see which are pdf, acad, documents etc

Alertnatively there is still the old dos DIR command which can be run form the command window - DIR *.* /S /O:D will list all the files in all the subdirectories, ordered by date

I use Directory hierarchy to keep track of things in a similar way:

c:project = main project directory using NAME of the project ("folder" for the Windoz weenies)
c:projectgps_raw-data = just what it says.
c:projectgps_raw-dataOPUS = just what it says

so forth and so on...

To get a "list" of a given directory, I just use the "command prompt" to navigate to a particular directory, and type in the follow [example] command...

c:tooelecounty-roads> dir >tooele_county-roads.txt

This creates a text file that (in my case) looks like this:

  Volume in drive C is OS
 Volume Serial Number is AEF7-9A59

 Directory of C:TooeleCounty-Roads

06/15/2014  12:52 PM    <DIR>          .
06/15/2014  12:52 PM    <DIR>          ..
02/20/2014  12:11 PM        15,617,736 1s3w.pdf
02/20/2014  12:11 PM         1,168,715 1s4w-1-b.pdf
02/20/2014  12:11 PM        16,824,825 1s4w.pdf
02/20/2014  12:11 PM           523,096 2s4w-1-a.pdf
02/20/2014  12:11 PM           640,836 2s4w-1-b.pdf
02/20/2014  12:10 PM         1,924,927 3s4w.pdf
12/29/2010  02:18 PM         1,300,572 county-raods-3s5w.pdf
07/31/2010  12:06 PM         1,651,164 county-rd-5s-4w.pdf
07/31/2010  12:07 PM         1,073,397 county-rd-5s-5w.pdf
07/31/2010  12:09 PM         1,158,531 county-rd-6s-5w.pdf
07/31/2010  12:14 PM         1,432,139 county-rd-7s-5w.pdf
12/29/2010  02:16 PM         1,207,960 county-road-5s6w.pdf
04/12/2011  04:17 PM           846,197 county-road-middle-canyon.pdf
12/29/2010  02:17 PM         1,920,595 county-roads-3s4w.pdf
12/29/2010  02:19 PM         1,163,630 county-roads-3s6w.pdf
03/11/2011  07:16 PM         1,083,759 County-Roads-4s4w.pdf
12/29/2010  02:19 PM         1,309,227 county-roads-4s5w.pdf
12/29/2010  02:20 PM           674,838 county-roads-4s6w.pdf
12/29/2010  02:21 PM         1,021,349 county-roads-6s6w.pdf
04/12/2011  04:29 PM         2,052,522 County-roads-tooele.pdf
02/20/2014  12:09 PM        45,645,442 T2S R5W Notes pg 31.pdf
02/20/2014  12:06 PM        72,388,464 T3S R4W Plat pg 10.pdf
02/20/2014  12:08 PM        27,958,406 Tooele-Lake_View.pdf
02/20/2014  12:08 PM        16,486,796 Tooele-Lake_View_l.pdf
02/20/2014  12:07 PM        16,741,893 Tooele-Lake_View_m.pdf
06/15/2014  12:52 PM                 0 tooele_county-roads.txt
              26 File(s)    233,817,016 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  889,058,709,504 bytes free

I can then open the file in Notepad, print it out, or play various cut-n-paste games with it.

Loyal

The libraries function in Windows 7 may do what you want. It shows the entire contents of the folder and sub-folders. You can order it to show which files have been created or edited recently.

Otherwise you might need project software that can show you files created or edited since you last visted. We use 4Projects online a lot or that. Autodesk Buzzsaw is similar.

Try using search by date modified in Win Explorer. Hit the search button and you will see the option for dates etc. I am not sure if date modified reads date created.

Give it shot see what happens

Are Your Project Files Under The Program Files Directory ?

Win 7 does not like them there.

Compatibility???

Paul in PA

I haven't tried this for awhile. Not sure if it would work in WIN 7 either. But I used this utility to get good reports.

Karen's Directory Printer

I don't have time to figure it out, but it should be fairly easy to create a .bat file that would execute a simple directory listing sorted however you choose.

You could throw it in your start up or scheduler and have it generate a report every morning.

Here is the help file for the DIR command.
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Displays a list of files and subdirectories in a directory.

DIR [drive:][path][filename] [/A[[:]attributes]] [/C] [/D] [/L] [/N]
[/O[[:]sortorder]]
[/Q] [/T[[:]timefield]] [/W] [/X] [/4]

[drive:][path][filename]
Specifies drive, directory, and/or files to list.

/A Displays files with specified attributes.
attributes D Directories R Read-only files
H Hidden files A Files ready for archiving
S System files - Prefix meaning not
/B Uses bare format (no heading information or summary).
/C Display the thousand separator in file sizes. This is the
default. Use /-C to disable display of separator.
/D Same as wide but files are list sorted by column.
/L Uses lowercase.
/N New long list format where filenames are on the far right.
/O List by files in sorted order.
sortorder N By name (alphabetic) S By size (smallest first)
E By extension (alphabetic) D By date/time (oldest first)
G Group directories first - Prefix to reverse order
/P Pauses after each screenful of information.
/Q Display the owner of the file.
/S Displays files in specified directory and all subdirectories.
/T Controls which time field displayed or used for sorting
timefield C Creation
A Last Access
W Last Written
/W Uses wide list format.
/X This displays the short names generated for non-8dot3 file
names. The format is that of /N with the short name inserted
before the long name. If no short name is present, blanks are
displayed in its place.
/4 Displays four-digit years

Switches may be preset in the DIRCMD environment variable. Override
preset switches by prefixing any switch with - (hyphen)--for example, /-W.

example: dir n:imagesgeo_imagesSISKIYOU_DRGs /S /B /OE >c:drg_listing.txt

Run the program: Directory Report
http://www.file-utilities.com

Save a directory listing to a file
and then compare the file to the previous one

This will show you which files were added/deleted/modified