Question for Mac shortcut external Harddrive

[liontamer67]

Hi! Does anyone know if there is a shortcut in Mac that allows you to copy the path of a file? My co-worker wants to send me an email with the path of a file on the external harddrive (synology 212+) that we share. Anyone know how this is done? He is using 10.6.8 and I am using 10.7. Thank you!!!

 

[CrickettGrrrl]

Hi! Does anyone know if there is a shortcut in Mac that allows you to copy the path of a file? My co-worker wants to send me an email with the path of a file on the external harddrive (synology 212+) that we share. Anyone know how this is done? He is using 10.6.8 and I am using 10.7. Thank you!!!

What if you click Get Info on the file, then in the resulting Info window, under General ->Where, you'll find the path which you can copy & then paste.

 

[liontamer67]

thanks we tried it but it copies the path but no link to it. seriously he is 5 feet away from me. I told him just print it out for me. ugh!

 

[hafr]

This might a really stupid thing to say, but what if he creates an alias to the file (right click, create alias) and then e-mail that alias to you?

 

[GGJstudios]

I use this AppleScript frequently to direct people to file paths:

Copy file or folder path to the clipboard in Mac OS X Lion​

I've modified it to replace my username, making results look like this with a single click:

/Users/yourusername/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist​

Another simple method is to open TextEdit and press Command-Shift-T to change the format to plain text. Then drag the file from Finder into the TextEdit window. The path will appear, which you can copy and paste.

 

[plinden]

If your friend goes to Finder, selects the file, and drags it to the Mail Subject field - he needs to have selected the subject field - it will paste the path (dragging to the compose window inserts the file as an attachment)

If you want a link, you can put file:// in front, eg.
file:///Users/plinden/Downloads/somefile.txt

Edit - just realized that's what GGJstudios is suggesting in the last part of his post - if you drag a file from Finder to any plain text based field or window in any application, you'll get the path.