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Jul 22, 2011
Leala Abbott
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Use the Automator to Extract a list of Filenames to a Txt file

Screenshot - MAC Automator Custom Selection

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 »

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