On Dec 16, 2008, at 9:45 AM, Dana Collins wrote:

>
>>> 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.
>>
>> That's it!  Thanks!  I tried it with rtf and --since the files in  
>> question
>> were images--it pasted the images in.
>
>> Yup--this works in 10.4.
>> Thanks again!
>>
>> Joe
>
> 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?

Sounds like the TextEdit doc was still set to rtf and one or more of  
the files was a movie (or something that would import as a movie).   
Try changing the doc to Plain Text before you paste.

What Len and Clark said. .  ..

Joe
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