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:
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!

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!