Segobit Software has released the freeware utility Advanced Directory Printer designed to print or export a list of directories, sudirectories and files. The information fields collected include file name, type, extension, size, creation time/date,last access date, last write time/date and file attributes. You can choose which fields to print or export. Advanced Directory Printer allows you to sort the list of directories, sudirectories and files by any of the information fields. The output listing can be saved as text files or as file ready for import into spreadsheets or databases.

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