Folder, Subfolder List

I have looked everywhere, but can't find exactly what I'm looking for. I need a script that will scan and make a list of all subfolders within a folder. I don't need the path or anything like that. Just the names of the subfolders, and the subfolders in the subfolders. Is this doable? I would like the list to be created in iA Writer, TextEdit, or Word. Thanks for any help.

you want something like this:
tell application "Finder"
set folderNames to name of every folder of entire contents of folder "HD:path:to:folder"
end tell
where HD is the name of the external drive as it shows up on the desktop. If there are a lot of items in the folder, you may need to use a 'with timeout' block to keep the script from timing out on you.

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I have a hierarchy of a few dozen folders/subfolders, containing a total of a few hundred word processing documents, on an eMac OS 9.2. I need to generate a text file with each line representing the full path to each document. The equivalent PC command is:
dir /b /s > dir.txt
How can I best accomplish this task?
Thank you,
Jeff Bowman

That worked perfectly, thank you.
Also, I'd like to comment on the nature of your helpful and neighborly reply. I'm new to Mac, and if this is my first impression of the folks over here, I'm impressed.
I'm imagining something akin to the small and tight-knit Microsoft Visual FoxPro programming community, of which I used to be a part. Fiercely zealous and uncommonly kind to one another, they're something to behold.
Alas, however, when I switched to .NET programming my old friends wouldn't talk to me anymore.
But that's not my point. My point is that I think I can enjoy working with this Macintosh platform and its people, if I'm correct in my suspicions. I don't think I could deliver myself to the advocacy altar one way or the other, but I do appreciate learning new ways to accomplish tasks at hand.
So thanks again, and see you down the trail!
p.s. Upon further investigation I find that I do indeed have OS X installed.

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How do I manage photos using a folder - subfolder type structure as I have done previously within Windows? For example, my photos were stored with a folder for each year and sub-folders for each month whicheach held the photos. Can I do this in iPhoto?

For example, my photos were stored with a folder for each year and sub-folders for each month whicheach held the photos
Why bother?
Check out the search box at the bottom of the Window. (Click on the Magnifying glass, it opens it) Now click on the mgnifying glass in the search box) and select 'Date'. Now you can find all the photos from any day, month or year. If you want to find the photos from a range - say a paticular week - then you can do that with a Smart Album.
Organising photos by date means you have to remember the date the shot was taken, and after a while, and after a few thousand shots, this gets harder and harder to do, so you spend more and more time rooting through folders.
iPhoto offers a range of organising tools and each offers more possibilites to quickly find the shot you're looking for. For instance:
I use Events simply as big buckets of Photos: Spring 08, July - Nov 06 are typical Events in my Library. I use keywords and Smart Albums extensively. I title the pics broadly.
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What
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You said that it happened only on few sub sites, whether this issue occurred on some subsites, and some subsite worked well.
Please check whether there are some differences between the subsites that worked well and the problematic subsites.
Whether this issue occurred on all libraries and lists on problematic subsites.
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ATTEMPTED SOLUTIONS & SPECULATION:
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Maybe some of the invisible .DS_Store files in your folders are corrupt.
Launch your Terminal and paste the blue code below into it.
Press Return and type in your password - press Return again and wait for the word 'done.' to appear.
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