24
Apr
08
Hey
This will just be a quick tip today since I have a lot of work on. Coursework + Exams leaves you with hardly any free time. Anyway this is just a simple tip to help you find the path of the folder you are in.
The quickest way to find the path is Command + Click on the title in the Finder window. This will show you the path of the Finder window you are in.
Alternatively you can right click on the toolbar, select customize from the list and drag the Path icon onto the Finder window. It will achieve the same thing.
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Handy hint: The command-click also works with many other document-based applications. Preview and TextEdit I know work - just open a document and command-click on the window title, same as you described here.
Programs which aren’t based around documents - Disk Utility for example - won’t generally work with this (what would it show?) and programs that aren’t very “native” OS X like Firefox also don’t work. Not sure exactly what definition of “native” I’m using here - probably only Cocoa apps have the ability to do it easily?
Best of luck with your exams!
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Hi! Thanks for your post.
Sometimes I need to get the whole path to some file or folder, in text format (like: /Users/someone/anotherFolder/someFile.rtf). Is there a quick way on MAC OS, to get this string from Finder?
I’m not 100% that you can do it your way, but you can display the path in the title bar using “defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES” with out quotes in terminal.