I need a program that creates hundreds of .txt files and names them according to a list or folder content.?

You can do this with a simple batch file:

@echo off

for %%f in (*.mpg) DO IF NOT EXIST %%~nf.txt echo %%~nf > %%~nf.txt

Put those 2 lines in a file with a .bat extension in the same folder as your .mpg files.

Run it either by clicking on it in explorer, or from a command prompt.

It will only create files if they don't already exist, so it won't touch any existing files.

I would try it in a test directory with just a few files first before you run it against the 900, and you really should make sure you have a backup of that directory before you run it there, just to be safe.

Okay, I understand the question and have had to do similar things. However, I'm not aware of any program that can do this. Since I'm a programmer I would just write something, I could probably whack it out in an hour or two.

Barring that, or if I didn't want to take the hour, what I would do is this: In a My Computer/Windows Explorer window, navigate to the appropriate folder. Right click an empty spot (which can be as simple as between icons, or away from the filename in Details view, which is the view I recommend for such a high number of files), click New, and click Text Document. You'll get a a new, empty text document named "New Text Document.txt" and you'll be in naming mode to type the filename. Since this is hardly better, I would just press escape.

THEN, with the right mouse button I would drag it over (to the same folder, so a fraction of an inch is plenty) to get a menu, and choose Copy Here. You'll get another empty text file named "New Text Document (1).txt". Then select both - Click one and Shift-Click the other - and repeat the Right-Drag method. Now you have 4 empty text files. Click the first, Shift-Click the last and repeat the Right-Drag. Now you have 8 files. etc. etc. etc.

It'll take a while, but you'll have your 900 empty text files. If you have the Status bar turned on in My Computer/Windows Explorer, highlighting them all will tell you how many you have, down in the status bar.

NOW. Select the first movie file and press F2. This will get you editing the file name. Highlight the whole filename and press Ctrl-Insert (the Windows version of Copy, works everywhere in Windows, as opposed to Ctrl-C). Press Escape. Then press F2 on one of the Text files. Highlight the whole filename and press Shift-Insert (Windows version of Paste, like Ctrl-V). Press Enter. Now you have an empty text file named after that movie file.

If you want to use a standard format in the text file, I would recommend adding it to the first empty text file first, before all the copying. Say for example:

Client's Name:

Phone Number:

Address

Products Used:

Project Staff:

That way THIS will save you a load of time with this process, since it will be in every "blank" text file before you fill it out.

If you know DOS it will be pretty simple.

1. Open command prompt and change the directory to the directory of mpgs. (use CD command)

2. Just list all the files as you want using DIR command (for eg: DIR *.MPG).

3. Export the result using ">" operator ( for eg: DIR *.MPG > list.txt)

4. Edit the list.txt as required using find replace in notepad or a better editor.

If you know DOS pls proceed, otherwise get someone who knows DOS. If you do some mistake you may create a mess. Pls be Cautious.

Karen's directory printer should be able to do this.

Create a file of names from the folder, rename to *.txt. It might work better to create the list outside of your video folder and move it back when you're done. Do a test run with a filter first to be sure you're getting the effect you want.

http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptdirprn.asp

I CAN DO THIS. INFACT I HAVE ALREADY DONE THIS. BUT SORRY I CANT SHARE MY CODE FOR FREE WITH ANYONE. But if you paste ur code here, I can try helping you. This is pretty easy.

At-least let me tell you the logic,

--automatically detect and create a array of all the file names you want

for each filename

{

create filename.txt

write output of ffmpeg.exe

close filename.txt

}

done!!

perl is the easiest answer, and it could include all of the mpeg metadata if you wanted it.

You don't say what OS, but if you are Windoze, go with the java program they list here for you.

perl was made for text files working with the underlying OS.

package com.org.folder;

/*

* @author Sridhar Reddy

* @email : sridhar@innoviti.com

*/

import java.io.File;

import java.io.IOException;

import java.util.Scanner;

public class ReadFilesinFolder {

/**

* @param args

* @throws IOException

*/

public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {

// TODO Auto-generated method stub

Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in);

String filePath = scan.next();

File file = new File(filePath);

int count = 0;

for (File f : file.listFiles()) {

if (f.isFile()) {

String fileName = f.getName();

System.out.println(fileName);

fileName = fileName.substring(0, fileName.indexOf("."));

System.out.println(fileName);

File txtFile = new File(filePath+"/"+fileName+".txt");

txtFile.createNewFile();

System.out.println(txtFile);

count++;

}

}

System.out.println("Number of files: " + count);

}

}

If you face any problems let me know.....

just about impossible, because that many files being created at once would CRASH your system, although, if you really need help, you can pay someone to do it ;D

Im up for grabs lol xD Ill do it for five bucks in a paypal account xD