Listing Contents of Folders and Sub Folders
What I'd like to do is generate some kind of pdf or text file that lists the complete contents of a folder or some folder. For instance, when using iTunes, you can print a list of all albums and song names inside your iTunes.
In this case, however, I want to make a list of all the items in my various external hard drives. I have a lot of organizing files to do, so I'd like to just get it all listed, and start thinking about how I might organize things.
I also want this list as a record of the current status of my files -- so that after I change things around, I'll be able to refer back to how I previously had files organized.
Hope this makes sense. Thanks for the help.
Textwrangler worked quite well. My only complaint is that it gave me the files in a kind of strange order, so it's not that easy to use as a reference list.
As for the terminal option, so many of my folders have spaces in their names that I just wouldn't be able to get a clean result.
Thanks.
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Hi, i need an urgent help from you regarding zipping the contents of any folder/directory including its sub folders and files to a .zip file. Please provide a code for ot or help me out. It is really very urgent.
Thanx Waiting....This class can add a string or file to a ZIP. Maybe you can adapt it to do a directory and all its subfolders and files recursively:
package demo;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream;
import java.util.zip.GZIPOutputStream;
import java.util.zip.ZipException;
* Demo for using the Zip facilities to compress data
public class ZipDemo
/** Default buffer size */
private static final int DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE = 4096;
* Compress a string
* @param uncompressed string
* @return byte array containing compressed data
* @throws IOException if the deflation fails
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* Uncompress a previously compressed string;
* this method is the inverse of the compress method.
* @param byte array containing compressed data
* @return uncompressed string
* @throws IOException if the inflation fails
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try
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int numBytesRead = 0;
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* Uncompress a previously compressed string;
* this method is the inverse of the compress method.
* Implemented in terms of the byte array version.
* @param string containing compressed data
* @return uncompressed string
* @throws IOException if the inflation fails
public static final String uncompress(final String compressed) throws IOException
return ZipDemo.uncompress(compressed.getBytes());
* Main driver class for ZipDemo
* @param command line arguments - either string or file name to compress
public static void main(String [] args)
try
for (int i = 0; i < args.length; ++i)
String uncompressed = "";
File f = new File(args);
if (f.exists())
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String line = "";
StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer();
while ((line = br.readLine()) != null)
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br.close();
uncompressed = buffer.toString();
else
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System.out.println("length after compression : " + compressed.length);
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byte [] bytesFromCompressedAsString = compressedAsString.getBytes();
boolean isTheSameAs = bytesFromCompressedAsString.equals(compressed);
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String restored = ZipDemo.uncompress(compressed);
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System.out.println("original is " + (isTheSameAs ? "" : "not ") + "the same as the restored");
String restoredFromString = ZipDemo.uncompress(compressedAsString);
isTheSameAs = restoredFromString.equals(uncompressed);
System.out.println("original is " + (isTheSameAs ? "" : "not ") + "the same as the restored from string");
catch (Exception e)
e.printStackTrace(System.err);
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...and I'v gotten hung up a bit because my little copying app doesn't seem to count folders and sub folders (which I suppose makes sense).
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end run
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So here you walk through the folder, each time you find a new folder, you walk through that until you're done. The code takes care of keeping track of where you are in the folder hierarchy.
>2. I imagine that a better way to manage which files/folders need to be updated is to create a file with a list of the contents, and dates of modification, and compare the new folder list and the old folder list to each-other... ok.. so, um. yeah. that sounds tricky.
There's no need to keep a file. Assuming you have two folders you can just walk through one of them checking to see if each item exists in the other, then copy the newer file to the other directory, like:
<pre class=command>on processAFile(fileName, sourceDir, destDir)
tell application "Finder"
-- check if the files exist
set sourceFileExists to (file fileName of folder sourceDir exists)
set destFileExists to (file fileName of folder destDir exists)
-- now comes the logic
if sourceFileExists and not destFileExsits then
duplicate file fileName of folder sourceDir to folder destDir
else if destFileExists and not sourceFileExists then
-- assuming you want a two-way synch
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else -- both files exist, so check mod dates
if (modification date of file fileName of folder sourceDir) > (modification date of file fileName of folder destDir) then
duplicate file fileName of folder sourceDir to folder destDir
else if (modification date of file fileName of folder destDir) > (modification date of file fileName of folder sourceDir) then
duplicate file fileName of folder sourceDir to folder destDir
end if
end if
end tell
end processAFile</pre>
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QS.QS_DOC_OWNER USER_NAME,
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How to find out how many items within folder (and sub folders)?
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I cant seem to do it using the info panel. And the standard view tells you how many file items are within the folder you are looking at, but not in the sub and sub sub folders etc.
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Paulor maybe
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I would like to accomplish the same thing in my Mac, but have no idea how to go about it. I do not even know how to create such folders and sub folders.
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But if you're trying to organise your photos, there's a much better way to do that on your Mac. Check out iPhoto It's a photo manager that's integrated throughout the Operating System. It's much, much more flexible than a bunch of folders in the Finder. You can keyword your pics, populate Smart Albums automatically, rate and edit your pics, all via iPhoto.
You can find out more here:
http://www.apple.com/ilife/iphoto/
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Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
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Brett L -
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Hey cor-el,
Wow. That did it. You are a genius! Thank you, thank you. It's very important that I be able to use the folders with saved bookmarks feature for my business which I rely on daily.
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