March 05, 2004

Finder question

Ok, here it goes. Is there any way to show the path of where you are at in Finder other than OPTION + CLICK or adding the path button to the toolbar? In other words, is there a way to simulate the "address bar" that is found in Windows Explorer/My Computer?

And yes, I've already gotten haranged about how "hideous" that seems.

Posted by joy at March 5, 2004 12:50 PM | TrackBack
Comments

Well, you can option-click on the titlebar of a window and it will show you the path in a little drop down menu. This works from the Finder and many document windows that are open inside an application.

A handy trick if you have a Terminal window open is to drag a file or folder to the Terminal and you'll see the entire path (you can copy that string as well)...

Posted by: DaveW at March 5, 2004 02:32 PM

You can go into column view.

You can put the path dropdown into your toolbar.

You can learn to not care about the path you're in, unless you need it for commandline purposes in which case you can do what Dave said and just drag the window icon (or any other icon, for that matter) into the terminal anyway.

Posted by: fluffy at March 5, 2004 03:20 PM

Dave,

I really like that folder drop into the terminal window, that is unexpectedly cool.

Posted by: joy at March 5, 2004 07:51 PM