Sujet : Print (or export to a spreadsheet) all the information displayed when Finder is looking at a folder (OS X 10.13 High Sierra)
De : dbrooks (at) *nospam* runforyourlife.org (Dudley Brooks)
Groupes : comp.sys.mac.miscDate : 30. Apr 2024, 02:51:05
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I want to print out all the File Names, their Creation Dates, and their Modification Dates. (Printing all the other info is fine too.) If possible, I would like to do it in a form that can be easily put into a spreadsheet.
In the built-in FreeBSD, the results of "ls" can be printed as text; then the text can be put into a spreadsheet without too much trouble, by figuring out the appropriate separator(s). Unfortunately, "ls" does not display Creation Date, only Latest Access Date or Latest Modification Date. (Likewise for other Unix-like systems, apparently.) And the Creation Date is the one I need most.
In the OS, you can take a screenshot and save it as a PDF. But I don't think it's a PDF from which text can be extracted. I'm not sure, though ... because I can't find where the PDF is being saved ... or if it's being saved at all! (Probably because of the very reason why I want this info, namely, to help decide which files to delete, since my HD is so clogged that the computer is slowed down to almost zero.)
The online recommendation I found for printing from the OS says to copy it by hand(!) into the spreadsheet or text file.
Anyone know how to get at least a text file of the name and the Creation Date? As automatically as possible?
(P.S. OS X 10.13 because I'm dubious about putting anything later on my late-2013 MacBook Pro, and I can't afford a new computer right now.)
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