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For more flexibility, under the New Text File action’s Options button, check Show This Action when the workflow runs and Show Only The Selected Items with both Save As and Where options (above) checked. I chose ‘finder_list.txt’ and saved it on my Desktop. Give the file a name and a location to be saved.

Next, go to Text actions and double click on New Text File from the list.

Note that you can also drag the action from the library and drop it in the building area. You’ll see the action placed into your building area. You can choose to include subfolders here if you like.

From the list of Files & Folders actions, double click on Get Folder Contents (search for it in the Search box if you need to).

In the upper right, set ‘Service receives selected’ to ‘folders’ in ‘Finder.app’ using the popup menus.

You’ll be in the Automator workspace, with the library of actions on the left and your building area on the right.

Open Automator and choose the Service template from the initial dialog box.

Automator makes it easy to get the contents of any folder on a Mac as a text file ready for printing, batch processing, or any other purpose. Services, which can be made available to any or specific programs through the Services menu ( Application_Name -> Services). New to Automator in Snow Leopard is the ability to create