Tim, are you saying that you can select all and copy to clipboard inside of a 
file folder and get the titles rather than the mp3 files themselves? normally 
when you do that you get the files themselves rather than just their names.

> On Jan 18, 2019, at 8:50 AM, 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Although Terminal is fun and useful for this, I believe that E T's suggestion 
> is the quickest and most efficient for this activity.  Regarding Simon's dive 
> into Mac/AD integration.  Great fun.  I love that kind of thing.  It really 
> works quite well considering the different platforms.
> 
> Later...
> 
> Tim Kilburn
> Apple Teacher
> (with Swift Playgrounds Recognition)
> Fort McMurray, AB Canada
> 
> On Jan 18, 2019, at 01:13, Lorie McCloud <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
> my problem with that is that I don't know beans about using the terminal.
> My Youtube Channel:
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>> On Jan 18, 2019, at 1:40 AM, Simon Fogarty <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> If your wanting the names of files etc in a document,
>> Then I go with what I think it was Jonathan said,
>> 
>> Use the terminal.
>> But in a slightly different way,
>> Use LS to list all the files but if you can pipe that into a file then you 
>> could copy the contents of that file out to your email 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] 
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>> <mailto:[email protected]>> On Behalf Of Lorie McCloud
>> Sent: Wednesday, 16 January 2019 2:26 PM
>> To: 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>>
>> Subject: Re: selecting text on a Mac
>> 
>> no. it sounded like more work than copying the individual titles primarily 
>> because I would have to open another program. I suspect this is just 
>> personal preference.
>> My Youtube Channel:
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>> 
>>> On Jan 15, 2019, at 7:22 PM, 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries 
>>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Did you try my suggestion?
>>> 
>>> From E.T.'s Keyboard...
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>>> Many believe that we have been visited in the past. What if it were 
>>> true?
>>> 
>>> On 1/15/2019 4:32 PM, Lorie McCloud wrote:
>>>> I know next to nothing about terminal so I didn't understand those 
>>>> instructions at all. I'm glad to know there are several ways to do it. 
>>>> maybe one of these days I'll learn about the terminal. I used to use a 
>>>> unix shell back in the old days. meanwhile the one I tried was pressing 
>>>> enter and copying the text. couldn't do them all at once but it worked 
>>>> great.
>>>>> On Jan 15, 2019, at 5:22 PM, Jonathan Cohn <[email protected] 
>>>>> <mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected] 
>>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Well, assuming you have open shell at current location service then you 
>>>>> could right click on the directory and find open terminal window at 
>>>>> current location. Then you could use the "ls" command or possibly ls -l 
>>>>> if you need the details.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Then you can copy the output from terminal.
>>>>> 
>>>>> ISn't it wonderful how there are so many ways to do this?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Best wishes,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Jonathan Cohn
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Jan 15, 2019, at 3:11 PM, 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries 
>>>>>> <[email protected] 
>>>>>> <mailto:[email protected]> 
>>>>>> <mailto:[email protected] 
>>>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Select all the titles you want, do a copy, then paste into TextEdit and 
>>>>>> save as a .txt file. Don't know if this wi work to paste into an email 
>>>>>> but you can attach the file.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> From E.T.'s Keyboard...
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>>>>>> Many believe that we have been visited in the past. What if it were 
>>>>>> true?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 1/15/2019 11:56 AM, Lorie McCloud wrote:
>>>>>>> I have a list of mp3 files in a folder. I want to copy the titles and 
>>>>>>> paste them into an email. how do I do this? I have some instructions 
>>>>>>> that say shift-option-right arrow selects by word but I don't hear 
>>>>>>> anything when I do that.
>>>>>>> thanks.
>>>>>>> Lorie
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