Update – : Thankfully, there is now a fantastic app called Actions that can retrieve the file path for you. And automation is what Shortcuts is all about.
#Mac copy path to file full
Just click it to copy the full file path to the clipboard. Copy file-name as Pathname option will appear in the context menu.
When the context menu pops up, press and hold the Option key on the keyboard. Select a file or folder and perform a right-click. So I thought, enough with this dragging and dropping, I'll move the backup file using the command line.
I use this app on a regular basis to share synchronized cloud storage locations with coworkers. If youre looking for something quicker Id imagine you can assign a key combo to the action. tar.bz2 file that I created to back up my whole user directory. Click on the file in the GUI then click on the filepath icon and select 'copy path' from the menu. Using a file path means I don’t have to manually dig around to find that folder it gets saved there automatically. The Copy path option is hidden by default. My mac kept trying to unpack the file instead of copying it. The “shortcut-friendly” file path should look like this: /-Photo/-Colors/-PalettesĪs an example, I can save an image of a color palette I like into the -Palettes folder. When you paste that into a shortcut you’ll have to remove iCloud Drive and Shortcuts, and replace the arrows with a slash. In my file system the file path will look something like this: iCloud Drive ▸ Shortcuts ▸ ▸ -Photo ▸ -Colors ▸ -Palettes The first Finder window (the 'source') should show the files you want to copy, and the second Mac Finder window should show the folder you want to copy your files to (the 'destination').