What if you don’t like the paths, though? What if a file path traumatized you when you were a child? It’s lucky that there’s an easy way around that, then. If, however, you’ve done as I suggested, you’ll get a neatly formatted list of files, complete with the folder path that contains each of them. If you see the formatting toolbar pointed out above, your TextEdit document is set to rich text. If you’ve ignored my rich-text/plain-text advice above, you may get a bunch of pasted graphics (or what have you). The first way to start your list is to select the files you want in it and drag them into that TextEdit document. You’ll want to make sure that you’re using a plain-text document and not a rich-text one, which you can toggle under the Format menu or by hitting Shift-Command-T. So open that and get a new document started. We’re going to be using the TextEdit program for this, which is a nifty little word processor that comes by default on your Mac. There are a couple of good ways to print or save a list of a folder’s contents, depending on what result you’re looking for.