This is usually something an IT type person asks for to keep track of files, licenses and more. If you have licenses for your stuff, just keeping track of more doesn't usually have any payback.
Bob
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Hello. Is anyone aware of a small business software solution for a "content archive log"?
I am looking for, what I am calling, a data archive log that would list all of the data, files, etc. on a particular drive and its drive locations. For example, the log would list:
C:/folder/tools.zip
C:/folder/file.txt
C:/folder/subfolder/moreFile.txt
Any such animal?
Thanks,
Leo.
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Hello Bob, Thanks for replying.
My reason for needing this type of log system is as such. I am archiving data from completed projects onto removeable external 80 GB hard drives. The current project for example has 300GB of data online that needs to archived and removed. I am dividing that data in 80GB increments and moving them to the removeable hard drives. Each hard drive will be labled and subsequently a "master data log" would be attached, something that could be printed out, that would list file by file, everything on that particular drive.
Make sense?
Thanks,
Leo.
There is no software known that can guess what each file you created is. However, ever a COMMAND LINE will dump the filenames into a text file. Then you can add such information into some spreadsheet and report.
This actually sounds like a post-project data management issue that needed to be addressed before or during the project. Next time is always what I hear.
You ask "something that could be printed out, that would list file by file, everything on that particular drive."
Here's the command:
DIR > FILE.TXT
Now print file.txt.
Bob
Try exchanging ever for even and another command would be...
DIR /A/S > FILE.TXT
Bob