So you can’t cut/paste file paths easily in Mac OSX. No keyboard shortcuts and even “get info” doesn’t give a selectable pathname. Yes, you can see the path, but you can’t get it onto the clipboard. Hmm.. after trolling a bit of the internet, I found that there’s some freeware and some methodologies- drag into terminal or into textWrangler… They all sounded a bit involved when speed and simplicity is the issue. My method of choice came from Camarena in a forum link: Create a simple apple script, turn it into an .app and then drag that app into any finder bar so it appears as an icon. So here’s the step by step.
- Open the applescript editor, create a new script
Applications > Applescript > Script Editor
- Paste the following:
tell application “Finder”
set sel to the selection as text
set the clipboard to POSIX path of sel
end tell - Save as an File Format > Application
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Drag the .app file into any finder window’s toolbar to add the shortcut
- Select the file you want to copy the path
- Click the scipt shortcut icon you just created
- Now it’s on your clipboard, so you can paste the filepath!