QuickTip: Seeing a File/Folder/Page/Document/E-mail’s Path

Today’s QuickTip is very simple and very useful.

To view the path of something on your Mac, all you need to do is right-click (or Control-click) its title, located in the top of its window:

QuickTip: View Path

Right- or Control-click to view a file, folder, webpage, document, or e-mail's path


It’s that simple, and it works on the following types of windows (and maybe even more!):

  • Folder windows (Finder)
  • Webpages (Safari)
  • iWork files (Pages, Numbers)
  • TextEdit files
  • E-mails (Mail)

This little trick is handier than a pair of gloves, and it’s particularly useful when:

  • Finder windows are opened from your last session because the back/forward buttons won’t remember how you got to the folder you’ve opened;
  • Webpages are reopened when you start Safari (click History -> Reopen All Windows from Last Session), and you want to go to the current page’s parent page;
  • You have a file open but forgot where it’s located;
  • –and the list goes on!

Leave us a comment and let us know how you like this QuickTip!

  1. This tip works for a Cyberduck bookmark. Cyberduck is a great, free, and opensource FTP client for OS X. Check out http://cyberduck.ch/ for more information!

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