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Folder(file) path / Address Bar

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LikeLinus

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Ok, how the hell can you get view and/or copy and paste a file's location?? In Windows you have the address bar which makes life so easy when trying to send file location links in email. I cannot figure out how to do this on Mac! Is there a way to get a full text path??

Am I missing something or is the OS really that dumb? It's annoying to have to manually type of a freaking link in emails to co-workers for file locations on shared drives. ARGH!
 
Calm the fuck down. You sound ignorant.

Right click on the file, click Get Info, you can then copy the text next to Where:

Like this:
Where: /Users/Twesh/Desktop
 
alfa147x said:
Calm the fuck down. You sound ignorant.

Right click on the file, click Get Info, you can then copy the text next to Where:

Like this:
Where: /Users/Twesh/Desktop
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Go fuck yourself. I sound ignorant because Apple doesn't have a way to display a full path without having to right click and then click on get info and then highlight it and copy and paste? No, Apple is ignorant for not having an OS that cant display a full path.

My job requires me to be able to use a variety of shared drives and be able to provide links to co-workers with ease. Having to add multiple clicks to get a freaking path is annoying.
 
LikeLinus said:
Go fuck yourself. I sound ignorant because Apple doesn't have a way to display a full path without having to right click and then click on get info and then highlight it and copy and paste? No, Apple is ignorant for not having an OS that cant display a full path.

My job requires me to be able to use a variety of shared drives and be able to provide links to co-workers with ease. Having to add multiple clicks to get a freaking path is annoying.
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Lazy as fuck.
 
There are a few ways to do this, although all differant from the windows style as the bar you can show in finder does not have a copyable ASCII format. You can leave a terminal windows open and drag and drop the file or folder to the terminal, this will provide a copyable properly formated path. You can also use automater scripts or one of the many programs that offer right click functionality for this task, I think Pathfinder is the common one for this, although I myself use the terminal method.
 
With a Finder window open, click View in the Menubar, and then 'Show Path'. It is not selectable though.

I am curious, why are you email file location paths to people? I honestly cannot think of a reason to do so.
 
alfa147x said:
Lazy as fuck.
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And? Computers are supposed to work for us, not against us and it really seems like OS X is working against its users in this case. In Window Explorer I can just hit Alt+D, Ctrl+C and I've got a path copied.

TheStu said:
I am curious, why are you email file location paths to people? I honestly cannot think of a reason to do so.
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Everyone I know does this regularly in order to point people to shared files on the network. Would you rather they send a copy of the file to everyone?
 
Nothinman said:
And? Computers are supposed to work for us, not against us and it really seems like OS X is working against its users in this case. In Window Explorer I can just hit Alt+D, Ctrl+C and I've got a path copied.
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While true, you can easily use the service that I posted earlier to assign a key combo and boom there you are. Most people aren't going to need this, and if you do, Services is a great way to make it work.
 
Kmax82 said:
While true, you can easily use the service that I posted earlier to assign a key combo and boom there you are. Most people aren't going to need this, and if you do, Services is a great way to make it work.
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I wouldn't call it great, it's more like a piece of duct tape covering up a glaring hole Apple left in Finder.
 
alfa147x said:
Lazy as fuck.
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I can see where he's coming from. It's not a matter of being lazy. It's a matter of realizing that OSX is actually much more cumbersome than windows in some respects. I'm a Mac user, use a MacBook Pro and an iMac. Love them both. But there are some things that are just painfully annoying to do on it vs. the PC.
 
Nothinman said:
I wouldn't call it great, it's more like a piece of duct tape covering up a glaring hole Apple left in Finder.
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Tomatoes.. Tomottoes. 😉

I prefer key combos anyway. OS X is made for the mouse specifically, and for consumers.. it's not super friendly for corporate/IT users who don't want to find custom solutions.

It might be a duct tape solution, but it does work.. so I don't see the huge issue.
 
Kmax82 said:
Tomatoes.. Tomottoes. 😉

I prefer key combos anyway. OS X is made for the mouse specifically, and for consumers.. it's not super friendly for corporate/IT users who don't want to find custom solutions.

It might be a duct tape solution, but it does work.. so I don't see the huge issue.
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I prefer key combos too, like I mentioned earlier I can just hit Alt+D, Ctrl+C to select the path in Explorer and IE out of the box in Windows since NT4.

Looks like just another reason why it's not at all corporate friendly. I was actually just thinking that this wouldn't matter at all in most companies because virtually all corporate use Windows so those paths wouldn't work for them anyway, you'd still need either a Windows UNC or mapped drive path. I guess Mac users are used to sending around the whole file and then merging changes manually or something...
 
I called him lazy for not googling it, instead he brought his douchebag attitude... I don't know why I even helped him :\
 
Nothinman said:
And? Computers are supposed to work for us, not against us and it really seems like OS X is working against its users in this case. In Window Explorer I can just hit Alt+D, Ctrl+C and I've got a path copied.



Everyone I know does this regularly in order to point people to shared files on the network. Would you rather they send a copy of the file to everyone?
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I wasn't thinking of a network resource. For some reason I was just thinking a local machine, so I was just like 'What the hell good is it doing to give them the path on your computer?'
 
alfa147x said:
I called him lazy for not googling it, instead he brought his douchebag attitude... I don't know why I even helped him :\
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I DID google it. Everything I found was either how to drag and drop a file into the terminal window or how to do it using several clicks. I'm asking the wisdom of AT if there was something I was missing. I've also seen the talk of scripts and add-ons. I'm just surprised the OS wouldn't provide the path.

TheStu - I work in Video Production and I have to create review files for my internal customers (i.e. co-workers or people in other departments) to review. I also work a lot with graphics, presentations and various other files that I place out on shared folders in a large corporate environment for people to view or use. We are located in 40 countries and I'm not able to email files externally over 5mb and it would be silly to email files that are several hundred MBs or GB to customers. Thus I use 3 shared drives that various employees can use. So I need an easily way to send a link to someone. I'm accustomed to the windows workflow where I can just copy the link and be done with it. I wasn't sure if there was a simple way to do this in Mac. I've found the path tool bar, but again it's not a copyable item.

It's not about being lazy, it's about an efficent workflow and doing things quickly. The other day I created 15 video review files and had to email the links. Having to do multiple steps to grab a link is time consuming. That's all.

This thread was just to find out if there was something I was missing. I just got a MacPro and MacBook Pro for production (previously using Premiere Pro on PC) and there are a few things I've found frustrating with the Mac OS. The lack of an address path, lock screen and how network drives work are just a few of the things that I've found irritating. It's a learning curve, that's all.
 
LikeLinus said:
The lack of an address path, lock screen and how network drives work are just a few of the things that I've found irritating. It's a learning curve, that's all.
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Agreed. For most people, they don't deal with these things.. but for your situation, it's a pain. I hate the way that OS X works with network drives. It's cumbersome and quite frustrating. Actually I hate the way that OS X works with all drives.. constantly spinning them up just to open a Save dialog, etc... That's one thing that I battle with constantly.

I use Dropbox/Cloud with the people that I work with. But that's also because I do web work and most of my files are rarely over 10 MB.
 
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