Log 6

Your manager steve Culleton is concerned about the amount of filespace being used on the server. You are going to be archiving the files onto backup tapes that are older than 6 months in 2 weeks time. Before that happens you are going to need to send the staff a list of their own files, to help them with the spring clean. You will need to use some MSDOS commands to answer the task.


First he will need to click start ->Run and run box will appear then you type in cmd.
You then need to type L: then press enter and type >dir , press enter

All files in your L drive will appear see below;



Type \>dir > list.txt then\>dir > list.xls then enter all files will appear in your L drive.


You will then need to open Microsoft excell to import the data on L drive, chooose file name.

see below screen shots on how to go about doing it.



You can change the setting on how you want it to appear

http://liveslick.com/2007/10/18/make-a-directory-list-with-the-command-prompt-in-seconds/

http://www.tnd.com/camosun/elex130/dostutor1.html