Capture a File Path

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@DanThomas

If you're talking about Finder, and El Capitan, you can right-click on a file, then hold down the Option key, and it gives you an option to Copy as Pathname.

Man there seems to be so many places that option is tucked away, Apple seems to be doing that more and more with things. How long has that been hiding there, right click and then option that is tricky. All the screen resolutions that were hidden in Lion that show back up with option clicking and option clicking in Preview with the file types gives you so many more options etc.

Copy Path (key command).skillet.kmmacros (26.3 KB)

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Copy Path of Finder Selection

I've used a Services extension to copy the path of the Finder selection for eons, so I never noticed it is not installed by default in OS X. I received a recent support question asking for this, so here is the resulting macro. Select a file in the Finder, and then select Copy Path from the Keyboard Maestro status menu and the selection's POSIX path is copied tot he clipboard. If you select more than one, then they are copies as multiple lines (if its only one, there are no return characters), …