File List For Mac

Use Video File List to find out more about your movie files, detect poor quality content, and easily clean up your movie archive.

1. File List Macro
2. File List Macro Confluence
3. Mac Terminal List Directory
4. File List Mac

Oct 18, 2019 To move a file to the Trash, drag the file to the Trash in the Dock. Or select one or more files and choose File Move To Trash (Command-Delete). To remove a file from the Trash, click the Trash to open it, then drag the file out of the Trash. Or select the file and choose File Put Back. To delete the files in the Trash, choose File Empty. Organize files in folders on Mac. Everything on your Mac—documents, pictures, music, apps, and more—is organized in folders. As you create documents, install apps, and do other work, you can create new folders to keep yourself organized. Choose Apple menu About This Mac, click Storage, then click Manage. Click a category in the sidebar: Applications, Music, and Books: These categories list files individually. To delete an item, move the pointer over the file name, then click the Delete button. A MAC file contains a macro, which may be created by various programs, such as UltraEdit, Minitab, and Cabrilog Cabri Geometry II.It contains a list of commands in plain text that are used to perform functions in the respective application. MAC files can be opened by the programs that created them.

Video File List Main features

• Detect poor quality content in your movie library
• Sort and filter all your movie files based on many properties like runtime, resolution, video format etc.
• Can identify and classify up to 500 movie files per minute on a fast Mac
• Supports most common movie formats on Macs
• Encode mp4/mpeg/mov files to HEVC (requires macOS 13)

Available in English and German language for macOS 11 (El Capitan) or higher.

Help & Usage

Usage is very simple – just drag and drop a bunch of files and/or folders on the application icon or directly in the main window. Video File List will then search for valid movie files and display them in the list. If a search runs for more than 5 seconds, you will hear a short sound once the scan is finished.

Files from the list can then either be

• deleted (see also below)
• revealed in the Finder
• played in an external video player like VLC (needs to be set once – can also be changed in the preferences)
• encoded to HEVC, supports very fast hardware encoding on recent machines*
• moved to a different folder/volume

Filter your files
Pick one or several filters from the left sidebar to limit the list to specific files/formats.

Sorting the list
You can sort the list by any of the columns e.g. to find duplicates.

Columns explained

• Filename as visible in the Finder
• Filesize on disk
• Runtime of movie
• Format: container format of movie
• Codec: Compression format of the video part of the movie. Find out more on Wikipedia.
• Resolution (screen size) of the movie
• Compression Ratio: How effecient is the compression of the file. Value depends on resolution and codec. See below for explanation.
• Audio channel(s), format, and language code (if available, only for mkv and mp4)
• Subs language code of subtitles found (only for mkv and some mp4)
• Last modified date
• Encoding – status of the current encode job, marked files for later encoding
• FPS – Frame rate (frames per second)
• Tags – Finder tags/colours. Can directly be set via Ctrl/Right-Click. Also works on multiple files selected.

Individual columns can be shown/hidden. Ctrl/Right Click on the column name for a menu where you can select/de-select columns.

Finally, you can export the list (from the file menu) to a format compatible with Numbers, Excel etc. And you also can print the list.

* requires recent hardware with Kaby Lake (6th gen) or later CPU (2017+) – earlier machines use much slower software encoding

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the compression ratio?
This value gives an indication of how well/optimal the movie is encoded. You can use that value to decide whether to keep movies or convert them to more efficient formats. (E.g. using tools like Handbrake) Reasonable values for h264 encoded movies are 1:100 – 1:300, for h265 movies 1:200 up to 1:1000 for 4K movies. Movie files with higher resolution tend to have a higher compression ratio as well. Consider re-encoding movie files with a ratio of 1:50 or less!

How does trash / delete work?
On an internal or local connected drive, clicking trash will move to movie file to the trash folder, from where you can recover the file if needed. If you use Video File List on a server volume that does not support a trash folder, the file will be deleted immediately. You need to confirm the deletion every time, unless you choose to surpress the warning. (Reset the warning in the advanced preferences.)

Supported File Formats
Video File List supports most common movie files on the Mac: MPEG (mp4/m4v/mpg/mp3-audio), Quicktime (mov), Matroska (mkv), Divx/Xvid (Avi), MJpeg, FLV. Currently, WMV files are added to the list, but no further meta data is displayed (see below). Contact us if you have ideas/need for other formats!

MKV cannot be converted to HEVC
MKV containers contain too many different audio and video formats to be supported at the moment. Also, multi-channel encoding is current not supported. Partial MKV support is planned for a future version.

F4V Format = MP4 Format
Recent flash video files use the ending f4v. This is actually just a mp4 container – so you can rename those safely to mp4 files and make them work properly with Video File List.

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What about the Windows Media (WMV) Format?
Due to unclear licensing restrictions, we currently don't support WMV format. In any case, we encourage you to convert any WMV files you have on the Mac to MP4 format. MP4 is much better supported on the Mac platform and can even be played back directly from the Finder.

The app crashes when adding files
This can happen if you try to add corrupt/broken movie files. If you provide us with the movie file, we can try to resolve the error for the next release.

Why can I scan only 5000 files?
This limit keeps the app useable – a list with more than 5000 entries would become unresponsive, especially on slower Macs.

Sort order for resolution seems broken
Resolution sort does work on the actual pixel count, i.e. width x height of movie frame.

The window columns are all messed up
Use 'Reset Warnings' to also reset the columns to a default setting. Or you can do the same on the terminal by entering the following:

Links and Reviews

Version History

• 1.MacPaint Image
• 2.Application Macro File

File Type 1MacPaint Image

What is a MAC file?

Bitmap graphic created by MacPaint for the Macintosh, one of the first painting programs for the Mac; supports only black-and-white graphics since the original Macintosh had a monochrome monitor.

Programs that open MAC files

File List Macro Confluence

File Type 2Application Macro File

.MAC File Association 2

A MAC file contains a macro, which may be created by various programs, such as UltraEdit, Minitab, and Cabrilog Cabri Geometry II. It contains a list of commands in plain text that are used to perform functions in the respective application. MAC files can be opened by the programs that created them.

Macros are especially helpful for automating repetitive tasks. Users can record various types of functions, whether it be inserting a snippet of information, performing edits to an image, or calculating an equation, then execute them at a later time with just a couple mouse clicks or key combination.

When saving a recorded function, the MAC file is created to store the commands that were performed to complete the function. The commands are stored in plain text in the MAC file and can be opened and edited by a text editor. However, a macro stored in a MAC file can only be executed by the program used to create it.

NOTE: MAC files are potentially dangerous files because they may be used to store malware. It is important that you verify the source of a MAC file before opening it.

Programs that open MAC files

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File List Mac