Another way to copy the pathname is to open the Terminal application and drag a file or folder icon from a Finder window and drop it into the Terminal window. Any ideas why system preferences was crashing as I was trying to set this ApplesScript application to run when hotkeyed? I would rather have this app work as a hotkey but the mouse swipe isn't bad. How to Copy File Paths on Mac OS X with Terminal. So now all I have to do to copy the path of any file is: Navigate to the file> Click on it> Swipe my mouse finger to the right and then cmd+v away. I set a 1 finger swipe to the right to run the above application.

You can set certain swipes of the fingers on the mouse to run applications. For example, to copy a folder named Expenses in your Documents folder to another volume named Data: cp -R /Documents/Expenses /Volumes/Data/Expenses The -R flag causes cp to copy the folder and its contents. I have the magic mouse and I've always used use MagicPrefs to give it some more functionality. Copy a file or folder locally In the Terminal app on your Mac, use the cp command to make a copy of a file. I didn't want to have to move windows around and then drop the icon, and then move the windows back. I didn't want to leave this app as an icon on my desktop and have to drop the file onto it to get it to work- as my software GUI takes up all that real-estate. I read that you can leave the app on the desktop and drop your selected file onto it. I was hoping to hotkey it as an application (sftĬmdc) but whenever I tried to set it up in my hotkey preferences my system preferences would crash? This copies the path of 1 selected file to the clipboard. Set currentPath to (POSIX path of (selection as alias)) I took your code and added to it a touch. I'm looking for a super fast easy way to cut copy and paste the path of any given file Maybe this will work for someone else too. here's what I've came up with as a solution for me.

Mac copy path to folder