The OS X Finder is a great tool to use for organizing your documents and projects into folder hierarchies; however, it is a bit limited. If you would like to save this hierarchy as a list in a file then the Finder and OS X does not provide these options. While the Finder does support printing a folder's listings by dragging a folder to a print queue, this is about the limit of the options for listing folder items.
One alternative to this is to use screenshots; however, these are static images in which items cannot be selected and copied, or otherwise managed.
Another alternative is to try using Automator, AppleScript, or shell scripts (including tools like "tree" to list hierarchies) to construct a workflow for this purpose; however, this can sometimes take a bit of development and testing, and be a daunting task especially for those who are not familiar with scripting languages.
The folder lines in TextWrangler all contain a colon symbol, which can be used to extract them to a new document.
(Credit: Screenshot by Topher Kessler/CNET)
Despite this, an easier option does exist with the free TextWrangler utility that is ... [Read more]
by Topher Kessler via CNET How To
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