Copy and Paste text in finder

One way is to use the terminal:

1. Open Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal

2. type at the prompt

ls -a

followed by a space. Do not hit enter yet

3. Navigate to the parent folder of the mp4 files and drag the folder into the Terminal. Its path will appear. Follow that path by a greater than symbol and the filename myfile.txt and hit enter.

4. Go to your Home folder and open the file myfile.txt with TextEdit

You didn't follow my directions. I said do not press enter after ls -a.

Edit: Enter might be Return on some keyboards. But still you don't press it until you enter myfile.txt

Open a new Text Edit document, hit Command-Shift-T to switch from Rich Text to plain text, then choose Edit > Paste to paste in the names of the files.

If you need the names to be in alphabetical order and they seem to be pasted out of order, switch your Finder window to Column view before copying the filenames.

Hope this helps.....

Dual 2.7GHz PowerPC G5 w/ 2.5 GB RAM; 17" MacBook Pro w/ 2 GB RAM - Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Thank you Mark. I didn't realize you could switch to plain text that way.

I'm just curious. I finally got back to my Mac, and my instructions did work. I wonder if you did the following if it would work?

ls -a "/Volumes/A4A\ MEDIA\ STORAGE/mp4s\ for\ mobile/" >myfile.txt

it may be the problem is how you named the path, and it is getting messed up because of that. If there are spaces in place of the slashes above in the actual names, using the quotes allows you to use spaces, so removing those slashes for spaces where the real name has a space.