> If the window you are going to is covered it takes some work to drop what you are dragging. cmnd-tab and cmnd-` work during drag and drop in all but the most

> If the window you are going to is covered it takes some work to drop what you are dragging. cmnd-tab and cmnd-` work during drag and drop in all but the most poorly written applications. And most of those poorly written apps are broken in Lion anyway. > With the Path Bar in Finder you have a similar mechanism but you have to drag-and-drop, which is, well, a pain in the ass. Oh, I agree, but that's a problem with NSOpenPanel, not the Finder. Subtle distinction, but it's there. > The closest I've gotten is a right-click->Get Info and then you can copy the "where" plain-text path. Copy (cmnd-c) the folder or file puts the whole path on the clipboard (along with a file: URL and file promise - which gets used is determined by where the paste takes place).