Tip: Saving Folder Contents to a Plain text file
By: Michelle Lopez, Associate Editor
I wanted to get organized, or at least try to be organized. So I wanted a list of all my applications along with the code and any other info with it. I wanted to be able to save this in a spreadsheet file but other than typing it our manually I couldn’t think of an easy way to do it.
Well searching around the web I found out that if you drag a folder in TextWrangler (free program From BareBones Software ) it will create a text file of the folder contents. I then copy and pasted the text into NeoOffice Spreadsheet (free program From Neo Office
Now I can add a column for Download site, user name and password. How I paid for it or if I was free etc. This way if and/or when I need to re-install everything I have it all in the same place.













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