Creates a folder for each name on the list.

[MrHappyGoLucky12]

Looking for freeware that will take a list of 100 names and create a folder for each name on the list.

[Ritho]

A good old batch file should do this for you. First save your list as a plain text file called namelist.txt with one name on each line, then take the following code save it in another text file and name it something like List2folder.bat Important!-- Make sure the txt extention is renamed to .bat (You should get a warning from Windows saying something like, the file may become unusable if you change the extention, which is fine change it anyway.)

@ echo off
for /f  %%f in (namelist.txt) do md %%f

Usage: Put both the bat file and the namelist.txt file in the location where you want your folders created. Then run the bat file like as if it were a program. In a few seconds you should have your list of folders.

How this works is it reads each line from your list (i.e. /f ) adds the name in that line to the variable (%%f) then uses the md (make directory) command to make a folder with that name. Then repeats until it comes to the end of your list.

Please let me know if you have any problems.

[MrHappyGoLucky12]

Great! Thanks!

[MrHappyGoLucky12]

The names were, for example, John Doe and Jane Doe. The folders I got when I ran the batch file were John and Jane. How do I get the last name included?

[Ritho]

Duh! I should have thought of that, since you said names.

We need to set a "delimiter" to ignore spaces commas and such, then make sure the md command writes the variable as a "string" so we will add to the code. Changes are in red.

@ echo off
for /f "delims=" %%f in (namelist.txt) do md "%%f"

Note: The above should work in most cases. However some text editors, like windows notepad, will do strange things with <tab>. So avoid using a tab between names if possible. If you use a text editor that puts in a true tab then the code will work just fine.