
Mavericks and below - How to find the Absolute Path to a folder on Mac OS X Instructions on how to use this can be found here. If you are a El Capitan user you are in luck, Apple has now created a specific command to capture the file path. El Capitan - Built in file path copy function Yosemite users must now follow a complicated procedure of creating a Service to do this simple task or take the path directly from the command line. Yosemite users special noteĪpple removed the ability to easily copy the file path in OS X Yosemite.


You can have it show a graphical path, but getting just the text based path to a directory (for use in the Terminal for example) requires a couple of extra steps. Mac OS X doesn’t have an obvious way to view the exact text based path to a folder (otherwise known as a directory) in the finder window.
