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Open images for editing in a specified order
Authored by: osxpounder on Jul 27, '06 01:37:19PM

Robg's additional comment is a great tip on its own. I just tried dragging a list of files onto a plain text document, and here's what I found:

List view:
Even if the files are sorted by name in List view, they don't appear sorted in the text doc. Dragging them gives long path names, but copying [CMD-C] the files in Finder, then pasting in TextEdit, pastes only the file names.

Column view:
If I drag from a column view, the files don't always drop onto the TextEdit doc at all, but if I copy and paste, I see filenames, properly sorted. Once I've pasted *something* [I only did all these tests with the same copy made from same Finder window to same TextEdit doc], it seems I can drag and drop filenames into the document, and they will appear with full pathnames, and all is sorted properly by name. Hope this helps some of you.

I didn't test Icon view because I seldom find it useful except when browsing image files.



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