10 Free File Lister Tools for Directory List & Print [2023]
6. KRKsoft Directory Lister
KRKsoft made Directory Lister a full shareware product some time ago, but they used to have a freeware version. The free version of Directory Lister from 2006 has loads of features and does some things better than many tools that are still being developed. A nice feature is the option to select multiple drives or folders at once from the folder tree.
The Options 1 tab is where the column selection is found with 17 different data columns available. There’s also various sorting settings and a file mask to select specific file extensions. Options 2 is to choose the output type, which can be a text file, an HTML file, or a CSV file. You can edit a few HTML settings such as color and font or include a custom external CSS file. To see how the output file will look, go to the Preview tab.
Download KRKsoft Directory Lister 0.9.1
7. DirLister
Not to be confused with the other DirLister program here, this one is by Barrysoft. It’s a small 474KB portable executable with a few options users could find useful. The most notable is the output types of the file to be saved. You can save to plain text, an Excel spreadsheet file, an HTML page, and also tab or space separated text files.
There’s an option for multiple file masks so you can include only specific files like *.jpg, *.mp3, or *.exe. DirLister is able to scan down into sub folders, include hidden files in the list, and include the full path to each listed file. The scanning is also pretty fast and a full C drive scan output to an HTML file only took about 5 seconds.
8. Filelister
What makes Filelister interesting is it works using profiles that you create for different scenarios. You get three predefined profile types for all files, audio files, and video files but can easily make your own. Each profile has its own basic layout, include filter extensions, selected columns, sort type, and how to save/open the resulting output file. Filelister can be made portable by extracting the installer with 7-Zip.
To start off, you have to click on Profiles in the program window and select a starting profile from the dropdown, then press Add. Clicking on the main profile entry allows choosing a text file or an HTML file as the output type. Pressing the + will open the options for layout, filter, columns, sorting, saving, and opening. When you’re ready, press Create List to browse for a folder or drive to scan. A profile can be renamed, duplicated, or deleted by right clicking on it.
9. Directory List & Print
The free version of Directory List & Print is a severely cut down version of its shareware offering. The first thing you will notice is just how many options are grayed out in this version, and you also get a five second nag when launching the program. Actions, filters, favorites, most display options, and all but the basic columns are not available.
Although even saving to a text file is disabled, one of the useful things that’s still available is the option to output the result directly to Word or Excel. You can also print or copy output to the clipboard. The available display columns include file sizes, dates, times, rows, and extensions. Both portable and setup installer versions are available. To remove the large file list warning, turn off the option in the Setup menu.
Download Directory List & Print
10. JR Directory Printer
JR Directory Printer is a portable 200KB executable that is able to scan your folders and sub folders and then output the resulting list by opening it directly in your default text editor such as Notepad or Notepad++. The list is nicely formatted and easy to read.
Size, date, time, and attributes can be included/excluded from the list and you can put a limit of the name length or even choose to display old DOS style file names. One area where the program is showing its age is the option to show file sizes only in Bytes or Kilobytes. Although JR Directory Printer dates back to 2001 it still works perfectly fine on Windows 10, including 64-bit.
Thank You very much. This must of taken some time. I am grateful for your generosity.
Do any of these give the option of showing Owner? Matters if run on a multi use (RDC) Server. I’d pay for this feature added.
Hi,
try ASAP Utilities for Excel. it is free for home users. and its splendid : you can get clickable (linked) filenames with full path, and any information about each file.(Information > 14 create a list of filenemes… chose details).
as for files in mobile , I found only mobilefilesearch at https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/mobile_device_file_search.html, capable to read fileliste from my Andoid (Samsung)
Any of these tools or any other which auto scans new files or folders created and updates list as soon as hardrive is plugged-in?
You can use robocopy with /L
Really useful and complete list, thank you very much.
I download Karen’s DirLister and found it to be very buggy on Windows 10. I Deleted it.
Is there a directory printing program that can handle cloud files like dropbox, icloud, box, etc.?
One more great tool for your list:
folder-sizes-explorer.com/print-files.html
thanks :)
Any ideas of Android version of this kind of thing?
I’ve been looking for years. No. No Android app. There should be! The only solution is to use dir2html on a Windows machine and connect it to the phone or tablet.
as for files in mobile , I found only mobilefilesearch at https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/mobile_device_file_search.html, capable to read fileliste from my Andoid (Samsung)
Is there a program that includes all possible fields? Length for example?
The Dir List and Print (#4 in the list above) prints a lot of fields in the free version, with a more complete list of properties which are available only in the purchased version
Directory List & Print is the best but the free version is limited: No filters.
Karen’s is ok but lacks of preview and looks old.
FileListCreator is better and free as well.
The comments; including your own, say there is supposed to be a utility here called “DriveZ”…
So where is it?
If you look carefully you’ll see some nice black buttons that take you to page 2 where DriveZ is….;)
KRK’s DirLister (2.37) free edition only allows HTML saves.
“Dir2Html is a tool which is free for personal and commercial use”
How? When I use it it changes every second entry to “TEST-VERSION” unless I pay.
How is that free???
Because when the article was written, Dir2HTML was freeware, you can even see the title bar in the screenshot say “freeware”. Arclab have since taken the program full shareware.
I’ve tracked down the last freeware version and we now link to that instead.
Use the older version here — Do NOT update. J
DriveZ is so simple and exactly what I was looking for. You don’t need to edit the output again to, say, delete the extensions, file sizes or information etc..
Only the filenames and it’s directly on the clipboard. Just ready to use in one click. Just have a try if you’re looking for such a simple thing..
(Others are not bad too (JR DirPrinter, Dirlister) but you need to clean information etc.. when compared)
Important: When I downloaded DriveZ using the link here, it asked for password for the zip file and it was looking a bit suspicious (v. 1044). So I searched and downloaded from somewhere else (v. 1.0.19)
The DriveZ download is hosted on our own server. We have to password selected files like DriveZ because they produce false positive alerts in some antivirus software and online services like Virustotal. If we don’t do that, just a few files can cause our entire server to be marked by an antivirus vendor as unsafe or malicious.
If you upload your 1.0.19 file to Virustotal, you’ll see that it is classed as malicious by at least one AV service.
Thank you.
So what’s the password for the downloaded zip files? ( I’d tried blank (enter) but didn’t work.. )
The password is listed on the download page.
Karen’s Directory Printer let’s you save output as a tsv file (tab separated values) which can be read by Excel
I have always like Directory Lister v0.9.1 by krksoft.com. There are portable versions online BTW. It looks like there is a newer paid/shareware version but v0.9.1 as of 2006 works fine on Windows 7 however I have not tried any newer version of windows.
It has all the options I need to configure the output and the output can be previewed, modified, previewed and saved or copied to clipboard in text, html or csv formats. It does everything I require, nothing more or less.
I’m using YourDir, which doesn’t have so many fancy options like the above, but is really easy and saves to either CSV or creates an image file, which I’m using a lot.
There is another way, open elevated cmd and give the command dir > filelist.txt
Open the file filelist.txt with notepad and print it :D
You can use and dir/s > filelist.txt command also :)
And you can open the file in word when you are done :)
Thanks for the refresher… I miss the DOS days…
Will any of these suggestions work with Win 10?
Directory List and Print is the only one for me. THE single clincher is its ability to output to Word. I’ve used it to produce lists, tables of contents, indices of hundreds of separate music, image, video files and folders which would have taken years to produce manually and which can be printed. And once in Word, editing is easy – using find and replace to produce a style uniformity. It makes the rest look amateur.
Thanks for the helpful reviews. @ A King: Nobody is interested in your self-serving propaganda. A PC user has the right to control their own machine, including software made freely available for it,
Snap2HTML is the BEST! It does exactly what I was looking for and I spent quite a bit of time searching! So happy I found it!
Dir2Html is no longer free. :(
I agree with anyone who says that Snap2HTML is the best! the most important thing about it is that it’s FREE so you don’t have to waste your time for finding a working keygen or patch unlike Dir2HTML(spent 1 hour trying to find a working keygen but nothing) and it has a file explorer alike GUI so you won’t get lost easily while navigating huge database
Stealing software is a crime
So informative ¬¬
This was e-learning for me. Learnt something new
I’ve tested all of them and the Snap2HTML was the best for me. Its design is exactly what I was needing.
The DIR2HTML and ArcLab are good options too but for what I needed, the Snap2HTML is the first one.
DirLister works in a test install, but unlike stated in Raymond’s mini-review (thank you) I was unable to get a listing that included folder names without an unwanted recursive listing. Maybe folder names do list with recursion, but I didn’t have time to try that, and it still wouldn’t help me. Also file sizes is one of several future features not implemented after years of version 1.0, but the author said he would have to need these features before implementing them.
I have used SNAP2HTML.
It is indeed a great tool and creates HTML file of the directory in a whisker and handy for the web designers. It has built-in option to search the directory too.
I used it for creating a directory containing nearly 4 TB of Files in thousands of sub-directories. It is simply an awesome tool with clean interface and easy to use.
Special thanks to the Mr. Dan, the developer of SNAP2HTML.
Great app,
thanks to the Mr. Dan, the developer and you too,
and this article. <3
The one I’ve been using for years is Rep-Listing 3.0 (Jean-Pierre Aigron, 2004) ; apart from a few minor bugs and quirks (incorrect file sizes above 2GB, annoying question asked every time the program is opened about « margins set outside the printable area ») it’s complete, fast and efficient. The listings are clear and include the file sizes in bytes written as continuous numbers (i.e. with no spaces, for instance a VOB file will be : 1073709056), which was the feature I was looking for back then. I wanted to have a list of the contents for each one of my hundreds of archived CD/DVDs, with the accurate file sizes, so that I could quickly verify if a file I was about to download was already there somewhere, only by typing its size in Windows XP’s search panel (dearly missed on later iterations), searching inside the directory containing all the listings for a given category of content (then if I wanted to be sure I could take the corresponding disc from the pile and look at the file, or calculate its CRC). Now I no longer archive files on CD/DVDs (neither reliable nor practical) but it’s still useful to keep tracks of things.
Thanks a ton man………….it works like anything…..great work
Thank you so much!
The best one is missing :
mythicsoft.com/agentransack/Page.aspx?page=download
finally… free from DOS’ dir command, excellent tools!
Brilliant!!.. Just what Ive been looking for, Thanks!
Thaks a ton man………….it works like anything…..great work……………
nice tools this is great! thanks Raymond.