Looking For an Alternative to DriveZ

[tatihulot]

Greetings.

I use a small freeware program called DriveZ that allows me to copy the names of folders or files to the Clipboard. From there, I can paste the folders into Microsoft Word, or Excel or Access.

DriveZ is adequate, but the interface is small and cumbersome.

I’d like to ask if anyone knows a program that is similar to DriveZ, but easier to use, which doesn’t require as much scrolling to find what I’m looking for.

This is for Windows 11, by the way. Thank you!

 

[Diguelo]

May I ask why you are wanting to find an alternative or is windows 11 playing tricks on it?

Looks like a simple little beastie, give me a while i see what I can cobble together for you

 

[DVDR_Dog]

Allright a friend of the Captian!
I saw him when I was barely a teen at a coffehouse, The Main Point in Bryn Mawr, PA. Outrageous show.
Are you looking to catalog music or videos? The rename, copy, paste from Windows Explorer can get very tedious.

 

[Diguelo]

Personally I was rather smitten by Dumpy and his Rusty Nuts. Thats going back to when something called Heavy Metal had started to invade reality and some guy called Meatloaf had some Bats in his Hellfry. God I feel old now.

 

[Diguelo]

Windows 11 is .net 8 yes?

 

[tatihulot]

I found something that does exactly what I want, only better than DriveZ.

FilelistCreator | Screenshots

 

[tatihulot]

<quote>May I ask why you are wanting to find an alternative or is windows 11 playing tricks on it?</quote>

It's personal preference, nothing more. I wasn't crazy about DriveZ's interface. If I close DriveZ, it does not remember where I was, in terms of the folder structure. I'd have to scroll each and every time. File List Creator allows me to configure it so that it remembers where I left off. That's a big deal to me. DriveZ does not have that option. Also, File List Creator has many more options, above and beyond copying lists to the clipboard. Once I found this program, I didn't bother continuing my search.

 

[Diguelo]

ok, glad to have been of assistance

 

[DVDR_Dog]

That's the first time I have seen that software. Looking thru Stefan Trost's site, pretty amazing. He looks at files from every attribute and has written a suite of programs reflecting that.
BTW Beefheart was a freaking genius, crazy but brilliant. Zappa saw that in him when they attended high school together and supported him during his career.

 

[tatihulot]

"Allright a friend of the Captian!
I saw him when I was barely a teen at a coffehouse, The Main Point in Bryn Mawr, PA. Outrageous show."

I met Zappa at a business convention in the 80's. Well-dressed, serious, professional, articulate. We talked strictly business. I asked him only one music-related question: Why wasn't Bongo Fury released in the USA? It was a collaboration with Captain Beefheart.

"Are you looking to catalog music or videos? The rename, copy, paste from Windows Explorer can get very tedious."

I have written databases for my movie collection and my music collection. I currently have Excel spreadsheets for them, but I decided Access databases would be more practical. I could have written append queries for this data, but I decided to start completely from scratch--but I wasn't going to type everything in one-by-one, manually. The File List Creator program is much easier to work with, at least for me. I copy the lists to Clipboard, paste them in Word, edit the list to my preferences if necessary, and then Paste Append the data into the database form.

 

[DVDR_Dog]

File list creator is a big find for me. Really quick and lightweight.

 

[tatihulot]

File list creator is a big find for me. Really quick and lightweight.

Paying it forward. I'm glad I could help you this time.