This is awesome! But one problem - we're linking to files that are on our server and when we send an email to a teammate and they click the link, or even copy/paste it in Go to File, it doesn't work. Thank you very much for your post, for me the option to hold Option button worked perfectly. I dont see a corresponding option in Finder. Update - on MacOS High Sierra: you have to select the file, then hold down option and click the 'Action' (gear) button on the toolbar, to find the 'copy. Whats a quick way of copying the path to the directory thats currently open in Finder Copying that path is very easy in Linux and Windows file managers you just need to copy it from the address bar. I had no idea there were so many ways to do this. Jamie McKee at MacKey Composition alerted me to this: You can right-click on a file or folder in the Finder, and then hold down the option key and choose “Copy as Pathname”. Users/keithgilbert/Dropbox/Stock/Vector/Open Clipart Library/openclipart-0.18-svgonly/clipart/education/logaritmic_diagram_01.svg This method also puts the filename on the end of the path, so in my example above, the result is: I just discovered by reading Dan Rodney’s excellent list of Mac Keyboard Shortcuts that if you select a file in the finder and press command-option-c the path name is copied.

Users/keithgilbert/Dropbox/Stock/Vector/Open Clipart Library/openclipart-0.18-svgonly/clipart/education The path will look like this after pasting: The file path is now on the clipboard, and can be pasted into a text document or an email. Select the full path next to “Where” in the Get Info dialog box I frequently need to copy the path to a file on my Mac or on a server, so that I can include that path in documentation or in a support email with a customer. This is obscure, but I ran across this recently and thought it might help someone else out.

Mac copy path in finder option