Use the Automator to Extract a list of Filenames to a Txt file
The MAC OS Automator is the swiss army knife of tools, just take a look at these “10 Awesome Uses for Automator” and I often wonder how I lived without it. In my line of work, sometimes I need to extract a list of filenames contained on a CD or a directory and dump them into a text file for analysis. Lucky for me the automator makes this task super easy and painless. You too can enjoy this in 6 easy steps. Step 1 Fire up Automator and select File > New > Custom Step 2 Create your Automation by dragging commands, called actions, into the Automator workspace starting with “Ask for Finder Items”. Step 3 Drag over “Get Folder Contents” from the Action list to the automator workspace. For my purposes I usually check the “Repeat for each subfolder found” depending on how deep you need to go, but… Read More »
New to me Social Software Pt. II – The Found Bin!
http://www.thefoundbin.com/ Ok, being someone who has loved and lost and loved again, I love the idea of this website. However the only way for it to be truly useful is to have a VERY wide user base. I tried doing a few random searches, but nothing came up. However, I still really appreciate the idea behind this website and would love to see it grow and become more widely used. A good way to possibly start to widen that user base would be to work directly with the chamber of commerce in different cities across the globe and encourage them to incorporate the use of this tool into their own lost-n-found system structures. A few media spots wouldn’t be a bad idea either. Here’s to hoping that some people are reunited with their favorite things.
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