The benefits of this are that it's simple and straightforward, and if you just want to catalog the contents of the current folder then this is all you need. Change the document's format to 'Plain Text' in the 'Format' menu and then paste the clipboard contents to the document.

To do this, open the desired folder you want to list the contents of, and select all items (command-A) then copy them (command-C) and open TextEdit. There are a number of ways to get around this limitation of OS X, some of which may be better than others depending on the circumstances, which include using TextEdit for simple listings and the Terminal for more complex ones, but for people who are not inclined on having fun with the Terminal, you can grab a Finder alternative such as ' Path Finder' which does have the ability to print folder views.īesides third-party solutions, the only easy solution in OS X is to copy a folder's contents and paste it into a plain text document in a program such as TextEdit. There is a 'Print' command in the Finder, but this will open a document in the preferred application and try to print it from there instead of printing the current folder view. Unfortunately there is no way to do this directly in the Finder. Periodically you may have a collection of files that you may wish to catalog by printing a list of the file names out on a per-directory basis, or by saving the name list in a document.

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