On 06/06/2012, at 10:36 AM, Jane Griffiths wrote:
Hi Peter
It may not work for a list of movie files but you can copy and paste a list
of applications from the Applications folder into Pages.
However, as with Numbers, the list is replicated numerous time in Pages,
whereas it is
just something out of your square:
if you use diskcatalog maker (or similar library app) you can scan the
harddisk, then export as text file, in the text file you can search for your
folder then copy that group of lines into you doc
here a sample of 2 files (info)
Macintosh
Hi all,
Here, in response to a question, is one method to get a list of files into
Pages -- in particular in this case, it is a list of apps in the Application
folder.
1) Open the Terminal window by clicking on /Applications/Utility/Terminal
2) change to the directory (or folder that you wish
Carlo,
An even simpler way to get that list of file names (without delving into
Terminal) is to open a Finder window, select all (or your preferred subset of
the) files. Copy with command-C, then paste into your Pages (or other text
capable) document.
If you paste them into another Finder
On 06/06/2012, at 6:58 AM, Winters John wrote:
Carlo,
An even simpler way to get that list of file names (without delving into
Terminal) is to open a Finder window, select all (or your preferred subset of
the) files. Copy with command-C, then paste into your Pages (or other text
Carlo's original posting was in relation to a query I mentioned at last night's
Wamug meeting, which related to copy and pasting a list of applications from
the Applications Folder into a Numbers spreadsheet.
The problem I was having was that I could successfully paste the list into an
Excel
Hi Peter
It may not work for a list of movie files but you can copy and paste a list of
applications from the Applications folder into Pages.
However, as with Numbers, the list is replicated numerous time in Pages,
whereas it is correctly pasted only once in an MS Word document.
It seems the
On the terminal tip without needing to copy and paste.
1) Open Up terminal or even better iTerm
2) cd to Applications i.e cd /Applications
3) Run the command to list your apps into a text file
- ls -l list.txt
To include apps listed in subdirectories just add the recurse arg.
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