You can find it in Applications > Utilities, or search in Spotlight. It's also a handy tool for seeing the path of a file.įirst of all, launch the Terminal app on your Mac. You can control the operating system quickly and efficiently to perform tasks, including finding, moving, and deleting files. The terminal allows you to interact with your Mac. Searching in Spotlight can also help you quickly find a file on your Mac. Click the file, then press and hold the Command key, you will see the file path appear on the bottom until you release the key. Type the name of the file in the search bar and find the file you want from the list.Ģ. Shortcuts on Mac are the best assistants such as Command-R, Ctrl Alt Delete, etc.ġ. You can use the shortcuts Command + Space keys to quickly open the Spotlight window. Spotlight can help to display the path of a file. Then you can see a drop-down with the path as it's structured. With the Finder open, hold the Control or Command key and click the current location from the Finder title bar. From the top menu bar, choose "View" > "Show Path Bar," then the full address shows on the bottom.īesides, you can use the title bar in Finder to know the full path of a file. Open the finder, and click the desired file. With Finder, there are two ways to reveal the file path.įirst, you can find the path of a file with the toolbar in Finder. To copy the file path, you can control-click the file, and press and hold the Option key, choose Copy "" as pathname. Other information is also displayed such as kind, size, created time, modified time, etc. Choose "General" under "Where," the full file path shows.ģ. ![]() Control-click the file, and choose "Get Info" on the menu.Ģ. If you have already opened a file and want to know the complete address of the file, it is pretty easy to get all information about the file, the file path included.ġ. You can copy and save the path for directly visiting it next time. There are 5 methods to reveal the path of a file on your Mac. With the full address of a file, you can easily and quickly get to any folder or file on your machine, saving you time to enclose folders one by one. If you need to get more available storage, see how to free up space on Mac. I don't think it can be done either which is why I asked the forum.How to Delete 'Other' in Mac Storage to Free up Mac Space? ![]() Can you please try the example I gave above this reply. Otherwise, I will just copy all of them to MY PICTURES, Go to ALL MY FILES, delete those files, then go to TRASH, to clean them out. When I follow your directions and go back to ALL MY FILES, I still see the original version of each. I am trying to take those images by moving them to "MY PICTURES". In Finder under "ALL MY FILES", you have a section called IMAGES. I don't have a mouse sync to my MBA, so a right click wouldn't work for me. I just want to move the file completely without it leaving a copy. So you tried it? Yes, I can do as you suggested, it's just two extra steps - dragging it to trash and deleting from trash. You can move or copy the file/folder with those keys (the difference is whether the source and destination are on the same drive or not).Įxactly my point. Do try out option and cmd when moving around stuff in Finder with a mouse/trackpad/tablet. ![]() No need for expensive tools that can't do as much as Finder such as Forklift (which is fine for ftp but sucks with network drives and has less features with file operations compared to Finder), Transmit or Pathfinder (the only one actually having a bit more features than Finder).ītw, the desktop is part of Finder too when it comes to files and folders. The only thing you can complain about that you need Lion or Mountain Lion for it to work. Is that hard to read the word OPTION? Is that hard to understand you need to press that key too? What do you guys not understand about the following? I think the best thing for all of you guys except for NewbieCanada is to go back to primary school to learn how to read because that's exactly where you are failing miserably!
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