David Pett

I work in an office that uses network drives to hold and share files with other people in the office, many times I am asked to let somebody know where a particular file is, and many times I have had to type very long paths (which sometimes end up missing a step or two). I was tired of this long process, so I did a little research and created my own little app for Leopard. It is called pathCopy, and it does exactly that.

To install, run the install package and once complete, drag the icon of the appliction from your Applications Folder to Finder’s toolbar (you may have to move your mouse around to allow it to drop)

Once dropped, it will look like this:

Now you can either click it and the path of the selected file/folder will be copied to your clipboard, or you can drag and drop files/folders onto the icon in the Finder toolbar and the path will be copied to your clipboard.

When you paste the path, it will look like this: Macintosh HD:Applications:pathCopy.app:, but obviously won’t be this path.

It is free, so share it around

Download it here: pathCopy.dmg

I must give credit to: http://henrik.nyh.se/2007/10/open-in-textmate-from-leopard-finder. I got the idea to branch out and build this app because of “open in textmate” which I love and use every day.