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the.collector

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Nov 20, 2012
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Hello

I am looking for a way to create a text-based backup of all files on my external drives. I have a "large" collection of songs, movies and other stuff which I can happily live without, hence I don't have a backup for them. I would, however, like to keep track of all the files I have in case of a hard drive failure - that is folder structure and file names. Is there any way to do this? I also connect a Windows computer to it so I guess that increases the possibilites.

Thanks.
 
I am looking for a way to create a text-based backup of all files on my external drives.
  1. Open a new TextEdit document and press Command-Shift-T
  2. Open your selected drive or folder in Finder.
  3. Press Command-A to select all items.
  4. Press Option-Command-right arrow to expand all folders and subfolders.
  5. Press Command-A to select all the expanded files/folders
  6. Drag the Finder contents to the TextEdit document
  7. Done
 
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