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Old December 30th, 2007, 06:11 PM
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I asked for this program several years ago, and after doing a search, I can't find the thread. What I want is a program that will let me print out what's on my cd. I still have the cd I put it on, but unfortunately, all of those old disks are unreadable by my computer. I don't know if it's because the old disks were ME, and my new OS is W2K Pro, or something else. So if whoever helped me before can re-send it, I'd appreciate. Thanks
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Old December 30th, 2007, 07:36 PM
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Default Re: OT-printing directory of cd

What do you mean you want to "print out what's on a CD"? Does the CD contain photos or Word documents that you need printed on a printer? Or do you want the program to list all the files on the CD?
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Default Re: OT-printing directory of cd

Erm... your CDs might have died. It tends to happen with CD-Rs. The ISO standard for the CD file system has been set for a long time (since before ME came out IIRC), so there shouldn't be any issue reading the data off of the disks in win2k, assuming the dye media has not gone bad. Do you have another computer handy to check them in? Friend? Work?

If you are talking about music CDs, win2k is able to read them fine, and list the tracks on the disk by number (there won't be any meta data, since thats not part of the music CD format). At worst, you will be able to read the music tracks in Windows Media Player.
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Default Re: OT-printing directory of cd

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What do you mean you want to "print out what's on a CD"? Does the CD contain photos or Word documents that you need printed on a printer? Or do you want the program to list all the files on the CD?
I just want to print a directory of what's on my cd. Just a list of what's on there.
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Default Re: OT-printing directory of cd

Open a command prompt (cmd from the run dialog), and type these commands (where d is the letter of your CD drive):

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dir /b



If you want to actually print it out on a printer, you'll need to redirect the output to a file. Assuming your account is "gregebowman" and you use xp/2k, something like this:

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dir /b > "C:\Documents and Settings\gregebowman\Desktop\cd contents.txt"



That will create a text file on your desktop, which can subsequently be printed. (Alternatively you can just output to "C:\cd contents.txt" if its easier.)

Of course, if it is a music CD, all you will get is a list like "Track001" or whatever windows calls each track. In that case, you'll need to use a music player that can access freedb to fetch id3 tags, and ideally can then output file lists.
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Default Re: OT-printing directory of cd

You could always Catalog the files of all your CDs into something like "Cathy". Fully searchable too.
http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/U...ies/Cathy.html
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