Q: 'print from finder' shortcut skips some files
I have a late 2008 aluminium unibody running El Capitan 10.11.5 with 8 gigs of ram and a 2.4 Ghz intel core dup processor.
When I use the print from directory shortcut (command+p) in finder to print a large bunch of my students' submissions it randomly skips some files, which made a small commotion last week when a lot of students didn't get their drafts back.
The work was mostly created in word on a smartphone or PC in numerous versions of Microsoft Word and saved as .doc or .docx or with the file name amputated, as well as some created in pages or plain txt. They have been uploaded through dropbox to shared folders.
I could not see what is the criteria for skipping files, but most of the skipped files appear to be .docx, and sometimes it even prompts me what program to open them in (duh El Capitan, Microsoft Word of course).
I'm curious if there is a way to help this work. Command+p'ing every single file is not fun. Any ideas?
MacBook (13-inch Aluminum Late 2008), OS X El Capitan (10.11.5)
Posted on Jul 1, 2016 2:33 AM
