On Dec 16, 2008, at 10:45 AM, Dana Collins wrote: > >> >> On Dec 15, 2008, at 6:46 PM, Len Gerstel wrote: > >>> This is in 10.5, but I am pretty sure it works in 10.4 also. > >>> In either list view or column view, select the items you want a list > >>> of, right click or control click on one of them and select Copy xxx > items. > >>> Open a new Text Edit document, make it plain text and paste. It will > >>> paste the list of names. > >>> Note that if the document is set for Rich Text Format, it will >>> try and > >>> place the actual documents. > Hmm... Very interesting. > > I tried this (in Leopard) as instructed to my list of Application > names. > TextEdit made a QuickTime movie out of the entries, not an RTF > document of > the entries. What happened? > > -Dana
Did you change the document type in TextEdit to plain text before pasting? Did you have a QT movie in your Application folder? When I did this by Selecting All (85 items) in my Application Folder and pasted them into a Plain Text formatted TextEdit document, I got a list of all 85 Applications and items in that folder. When I did this with a TextEdit Document that was formatted for Rich Text Format (you can tell by the formatting options- styles, spacing, alignment that appear), I get 31 icons, some of them applications, some generic folders. Where did the rest go? I don't know and this is subject of another thread if anyone is wondering. RTF documents can hold many things, including qt movies, images, etc. This is in 10.4.11. Len --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
