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The fact that finder doesn't let you retrieve or enter your current FS path just like a URL in a browser is criminal.

by m_fayer 10y ago

coryfklein 10y ago
Drag the icon in the top center of the window onto your text editor or terminal, it will paste the full path from the Finder window. Admittedly it's annoying that this feature is hidden and requires dragging with the mouse, but it is possible.
- lemoncucumber 10y ago
  You can also drag any folder or file from the finder into an open or save dialog and it will take you to that folder / select that file
  - travelbyphone 10y ago
    This is one of many features i much appreciate in Mac OS X. Active corners is another powerful features that makes window managing and file moving a bliss. I find macOS much stickier than iOS. I can go without my iPad but not without my mac.
  - 72deluxe 10y ago
    This is great and I miss it every day at work on Windows. I end up Alt-D , Ctrl-C, alt-tab, Ctrl-V to work out where anything is.
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lemoncucumber 10y ago
Cmd-shift-G lets you enter a path (with tab completion) in the Finder or in any open/save dialog
- m_fayer 10y ago
  It's hidden, looks like an afterthought ux-wise, and is inferior to the interactive bread-crumb style that the windows explorer uses. But better than nothing, thanks.
  - coldtea 10y ago
    >and is inferior to the interactive bread-crumb style that the windows explorer uses Actually the Finder has interactive breadcrumb style paths that's not hidden at all (just not on by default): View -> Show Path Bar It also has a "path dropdown" with all the directories up to the current path, shown if you command-click on the current folder's icon+name on the top-center of the Finder.
    - chipotle_coyote 10y ago
      "Show Path Bar" isn't interactive, but it's worth noting that the Command-Click trick lets you navigate to any of the folders along the path, not just display them. (Which I'm sure you know, but just in case readers don't.) I've never found macOS's window management to be that bad, but to be fair I've been using Moom for a decade or so, and lately have been using the "split full screen app" trick a lot. (Someone else mentioned the long press on the green "full screen" dot for that, but you can also do it just by making an app full screen, going to Mission Control--which I do with a four-finger swipe--and dragging a second app on top of the full screen one.) That's not as useful for 27" monitors--in most cases I prefer to actually have untiled windows I can rearrange and resize with the pointer--but it's terrific for laptop screens.
      - coldtea 10y ago
        >"Show Path Bar" isn't interactive, but it's worth noting that the Command-Click trick lets you navigate to any of the folders along the path, not just display them. Not sure what "isn't interactive" means, but the OS X "path bar" let's you do the exact same thing (as you describe for the command-click on the folder icon): by clicking on any folder along the path you can navigate to it. Note that it takes a double-click for that though. Perhaps you were only single-clicking?
eridius 10y ago
But Finder lets you drag any folder into an Open or Save dialog to navigate the dialog to that folder. That's something that continually frustrates me in Windows. As near as I can tell, the only way to move a Windows open dialog to point to a folder that's open in Explorer is to copy and paste the URL (which means throwing away whatever's in my clipboard).
kristofferR 10y ago
Just hold alt/option when copying something and the Copy option will change to Copy path. The path can be pasted in the Go Menu (or with Shift-Command-G)

The fact that finder doesn't let you retrieve or enter your current FS path just like a URL in a browser is criminal.

by m_fayer 10y ago

The fact that finder doesn't let you retrieve or enter your current FS path just like a URL in a browser is criminal.

Drag the icon in the top center of the window onto your text editor or terminal, it will paste the full path from the Finder window. Admittedly it's annoying that this feature is hidden and requires dragging with the mouse, but it is possible.

lemoncucumber 10y ago
You can also drag any folder or file from the finder into an open or save dialog and it will take you to that folder / select that file
- travelbyphone 10y ago
  This is one of many features i much appreciate in Mac OS X. Active corners is another powerful features that makes window managing and file moving a bliss. I find macOS much stickier than iOS. I can go without my iPad but not without my mac.
- 72deluxe 10y ago
  This is great and I miss it every day at work on Windows. I end up Alt-D , Ctrl-C, alt-tab, Ctrl-V to work out where anything is.
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lemoncucumber 10y ago

Cmd-shift-G lets you enter a path (with tab completion) in the Finder or in any open/save dialog

m_fayer 10y ago
It's hidden, looks like an afterthought ux-wise, and is inferior to the interactive bread-crumb style that the windows explorer uses. But better than nothing, thanks.
- coldtea 10y ago
  >and is inferior to the interactive bread-crumb style that the windows explorer uses Actually the Finder has interactive breadcrumb style paths that's not hidden at all (just not on by default): View -> Show Path Bar It also has a "path dropdown" with all the directories up to the current path, shown if you command-click on the current folder's icon+name on the top-center of the Finder.
  - chipotle_coyote 10y ago
    "Show Path Bar" isn't interactive, but it's worth noting that the Command-Click trick lets you navigate to any of the folders along the path, not just display them. (Which I'm sure you know, but just in case readers don't.) I've never found macOS's window management to be that bad, but to be fair I've been using Moom for a decade or so, and lately have been using the "split full screen app" trick a lot. (Someone else mentioned the long press on the green "full screen" dot for that, but you can also do it just by making an app full screen, going to Mission Control--which I do with a four-finger swipe--and dragging a second app on top of the full screen one.) That's not as useful for 27" monitors--in most cases I prefer to actually have untiled windows I can rearrange and resize with the pointer--but it's terrific for laptop screens.
    - coldtea 10y ago
      >"Show Path Bar" isn't interactive, but it's worth noting that the Command-Click trick lets you navigate to any of the folders along the path, not just display them. Not sure what "isn't interactive" means, but the OS X "path bar" let's you do the exact same thing (as you describe for the command-click on the folder icon): by clicking on any folder along the path you can navigate to it. Note that it takes a double-click for that though. Perhaps you were only single-clicking?

eridius 10y ago

But Finder lets you drag any folder into an Open or Save dialog to navigate the dialog to that folder. That's something that continually frustrates me in Windows. As near as I can tell, the only way to move a Windows open dialog to point to a folder that's open in Explorer is to copy and paste the URL (which means throwing away whatever's in my clipboard).

kristofferR 10y ago

Just hold alt/option when copying something and the Copy option will change to Copy path. The path can be pasted in the Go Menu (or with Shift-Command-G)