![]() Your Mac will make it look all nice and everything, just like my example above, and you can revel in the fact that you know how to do something pretty cool. ![]() If you plan on using the Edit menu for this rather than the shortcut, know that you have to hold down Option in order for “Copy as Pathname” to appear.įinally, go to wherever you’d like to put in the path, which could be an email, a message, or heck, even the Terminal, and just press Command-V to paste it as you normally would. …and then press the shortcut Option-Command-C, which is short for Finder’s Edit > Copy as Pathname menu item. (The location of Copy As Path in the context menu list will vary, depending on your system setup and the type of file you are right-clicking on. In the context menu that pops up, select Copy As Path. Hold down Shift on your keyboard and right-click on it. The easier way to go is to use a shortcut, so first, select the file or folder you want to copy the pathname for… Find the file or folder whose path you’d like to copy in File Explorer. Ignoring the fact that no one in the history of ever has needed to reference that file, look at how long the path is! If you were to type that out, being sure to get all of the capitalization and so on correct, it’d take a while. ![]() System/Library/WidgetResources/AppleClasses/Images/ As an example, let’s pretend that you wanted to point someone to this file:
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