File List Export App Reviews

This slick little app grabs file names and organizes them. I needed an excel file of several thousand photo file names to import to a database. File List Export provided this in seconds, along with metadata in other useful columns. Version 2.0 will even sort files out by file type and organize them into folders. I haven’t needed to do this, but if I did, I’d trust this app. Very sweet.

First, you can’t select files located on iCloud Second, even if you copy files on your hard disk the app won’t see it Keynote, Pages, Numbers, Qtime, nothing appears in FLE it seems to work fine with other kind of files (pictures, mp3, windows files) but for me it’s totally useless.

I was searching for somenthing like a visualSed or VisualAwk and found this. It does a decent job! I only missed the filter option “file does not contain” as it has only the option “file contains”.

Das beste utility zur Bestandsaufnahme umfangreicher Archive.

It is a wonderful helper when you have a huge amount of files and you do not want to lose track. I manage 40 TB media files on 14 harddisks. And the service is perfect: I sent an email and an hour later I got a very satisfying answer. Must have!

I can’t even use this program. It has crashed every time.

I bought it out of curiosity, I don’t think I’d need a list of my files. But it does exactly what it’s meant to do.

Works fine for me but only if I save in CSV format. Could not open the .xls or .xlsx format with any app including Numbers. Would like to see a "uncheck all" button in the Visible Columns Setting (or three buttons "check all" for the three different categories) because it becomes annoying to check/uncheck one at a time. Ample choice of columns is good. Overall very useful to track files on multiple hard drives with several level of directories.

Does exactly what it promises.

If it can import CSV or Exell exported by this app, even better. Please consider , Mr/Ms. Developer.

Crashed as soon as it starts to scan selected folder. Tried it with 10.8.8 and 10.9.2.

Always crashes…does not work.

This app doesn’t promise too much — but at least in its current itineration it works as advertised!

I was doing some very complex file manipulation involving 1TB of pictures and videos. Basically I was sorting through years of family history and I needed a way to quickly generate a file list with date and time stamps as I’m about to massively rename files using another tool. This app was nearly perfect for what I needed it. The only caveat was, it didn’t output the seconds component of the date/time stamp of a file. Minor issue, and easily forgivable. Although for my task, I actually did needed the seconds, but I’m sure most people out there won’t. Again, create app and works as advertised. Now, if the dev can just fix my one minor issue this would just be so perfect for me.

I realize after using it more that in “kind” it doesn’t recognize certain formats like MKV for video and FLAC for audio. Please update to recognize more formats so that when I choose “file type” they are included.

I have a couple of large collections that are well sorted. When I used win, I had a program that could make a list of the files for me. Never found anything on the mac. This bit of heaven not only gives me a list of names but attributes, file size, the file name and the file path as separate entities. I haven’t had any problem with it yet, but I have a large chunk of memory, so maybe that helps. I am very, very happy that I can make inventories now… oh, it also was able to provide data on external drives, too. Many thanks to Giorgos for such a useful little program!!!!!

Great App for creating file-/folder-lists. I wish to have a few funktions more but you get a lot of app for reasonable money.

There is not much that is compicated about trying to get a list of a folders, or a group of folders, contents. Although an aspect of the command line in OS X (and available thru Terminal.app), such procedure is hidden to the average user of Macs, and while it could be learned with some effort, won’t be approached by most (99%?). This app is a shortcut that becomes very useful when many nested folders must be accessed, when the file names are not a clear indication of the contents of the file (so “comments” can give details), and when files that are the same may be unclear because the title is different but other parameters can show the identical nature (file size, author, etc.). this app helps not waste time, delivers a printable list that can be saved to spreadsheet and database files, and are sortable. I find it useful for large lists that need to be ordered in various ways and dumped into other programs easily. It is not rocket science, and I don’t ask it to be. For researched documentsand video lists, much appreciated.

I sorted by path, but the root folders still mix with files in subfolders: file name "c:xray.pdf" will list between c:washington2014.jpg and c:year2014.pdf, because x falls between w and y in the alphabet. Id like to see my root files listed separately, as if a lack of subfolder is the same as a subfolder named ~, so root files are always listed before subfolders. In the same way, root files within the subfolders would list before files in the sub-subfolders, and so on. (Sincere apologies for using DOS/Windows path terminology, c: is just easier than the Mac alternative.)

Works as it is advertised. Highly recommended.