My boss is asking about how to get a print out of our servers tree structure for an impending spring clean and has been complaining that the old DOS method he used to use no longer works.

Is there a way to do this from inside Windows (2000, XP or Vista) or are there any freeware apps that can do this?

thanks in advance.

 

The DOS command Tree still works in vista and if your structure isn't too big, works well.

If you just want folders as a starting point, I'd use
dir /b /s /ad path

 

My knowledge of DOS is a tad rusty.

I can't change the directory to look at a network drive - any way to print the tree structure from windows?

 

TreeSize

 

Path in the dir command can include \\servername\sharename so will allow the tree to be captured for any network share you have access to.

Add '> logfile' to capture the data to a file

 

Agreed - Treesize is v.useful and quickly shows up where huuuge files may be hiding...

JAM Software - TreeSize Professional - Hard Disk Space Manager that shows folder size and many more statistics

 

Treesize does seem to do the trick - not figured out how to get the whole expanded directory to print out yet but can see it on screen.

 

+1 for Treesize - invaluable tool for.... users who...are... tools....

 

Treesize is a very powerful tool, I used to run nightly scans, export as xml, have it compare the previous night, week and month and mail the management with a report to let let them know where the disk space was going. All automatic.

But for just getting a tree, I stand by tree or dir!