![]() ![]() Please follow me on Twitter, or join me in the AppleHolic’s bar & grill and Apple Discussions groups on MeWe. Take a look here for a vast collection of tips for Mac, iPhone, iPad and all the other Apple products. While I think this may be something you don’t need very often, I hope this comes in useful to someone out there who is trying to figure this out. In future you’ll be able to select an item in a Finder window and scoot up to Finder>Services and choose FindFilePath to have the location saved to your clipboard so you can paste it as text. Give the action a name ( FindFilePath seems reasonable) and Save.Ĭongratulations.Then drag Copy to Clipboard across from the Actions menu to the left.At the top right of the Automator window set ‘ Workflow receives current’ to files or folders in Finder.Open Automator, open a New Docuument and select Quick Action. ![]() You can also make an Automator script for this, which you can then access via the Services menu from within an app. How to make an Automator script to find file path The Where section in the window shows you where your file is kept.Right click the file in a Finder window and then choose Get Info.Drag-&-drop your file onto the Terminal window.This approach is a little like bringing a AK47 to a snowball fight, but here we go: I will stress that I find both of these approaches a little more hit and miss than the others. You can also do this from within a document, just tap Go>Go to Folder… and then drag-&-drop the favicon (the small icon beside the file name in the application window) into the search field to see the path. To find the path from within the Finder you can also simply tap the Go menu, choose Go to Folder and then drag the file to the path field and you’ll see it. How to find the path from within a document or from the Finder ![]() If it is saved, all you need to do is Control-Click the document name at the top and you’ll see the path appear, with the document at the top and all enclosing spaces listed. When you are working in a saved document, image or other item you can usually figure out where the item is stored straight from the application window (the window in which you view that item). How to find the path from within a document
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