How to Print Finder Window

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How to Print Finder Window

This has perplexed me for some time but I'm just getting 'round to asking ...

I miss the "Print Window" function of OS9. How does one go about doing that these days ... other than performing a screen capture?

"Print Window" has great usefulness without having to deal with a file to delete (as screen capture does).

Thanks in advance.

Mac Pro Xeon 64-bit Workstation, Mac OS X (10.6.6), 16 GB 1333 MHz DDR3

Posted on Mar 27, 2011 7:13 AM

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Answer 1

rkaufmann87

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Mar 27, 2011 8:09 AM in response to KatieOConnell

You can do a *Shift - Command - 3* to capture a screen shot or *Shift - Command - 4* to select a portion of the screen and then print the screen shot.

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Answer 2

tehiv

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Apr 11, 2011 3:08 PM in response to KatieOConnell

You can drag the enclosing folder to your printer in the dock, then save as pdf from the dialog to get a full file directory. It does have a problem with long file names though.

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Answer 3

Apr 12, 2011 4:55 AM in response to tehiv

Thanks for that.

The limitation is that the resulting PDF shows only the top folders in the hierarchy ... Even if I expand all the folders in the window, their contents don't show up in the PDF file list.

I was hoping to print a list of the files archived on an external hard drive that's being retired so that I could store the list with the physical drive.

Why did Apple take the 'print window' ability away from us? It was SO useful!!

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