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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
