Select any file or folder (or a mixture of multiple files and folders at once) in Finder.

Now let’s test our fancy solution! Here’s how it works…

Double-click the Service icon from Automator’s start menu.This is going to be so simple anyone can do it. If you’ve never used Automator before, that’s not a problem. Launch Automator from your Mac’s Applications folder.Copy the path to OS X’s clipboard so it can be pasted in any application.Set up a keyboard shortcut for quick & easy access.Integrate with Finder so this feels like a real, native solution.Require no third party software or plugins to accomplish our goal.Support the selection of multiple files and folders at a time.Let’s take that a few steps further and say we want to:

Obviously we want to copy a file path or folder path from Finder and paste it somewhere else for reference. So what do we do? We take matters into our own hands, of course! Let’s come up with our own solution – and let’s make it awesome.īefore we get started, we should establish some goals. Even MacYourself’s clever workaround from 2009 doesn’t work anymore in OS X 10.7 Lion. There are a bunch of third party utilities and convoluted workarounds to get this functionality, but let’s be honest – they’re all pretty terrible. Mac users have long complained that there’s no easy way to copy the location of a file or folder on their computer and paste it in a document, email, internet browser, etc. After just a few steps you will be able to select items in Finder, press a quick keyboard shortcut, and paste the path(s) anywhere you want. Learn how to create your own OS X service that lets you copy & paste the paths of files and folders in Finder.

Mac copy path service