Comments on: Copy Finder Path to Clipboard – Tip 2

By: beaverbee

beaverbee — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:51:57 +0000

Hey. If you you want a more clean/integrated solution, FinderPath may be worth a look:

http://finderpath.bahoom.de/

By: Paton Lewis

Paton Lewis — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:45:55 +0000

Thanks! That’s exactly what I was looking for. I still can’t believe the Finder doesn’t have a feature like this yet. I added rjfvaac’s modification, but unfortunately some applications mis-handle quoted paths in save-as dialogs and apparently treat the entire quoted string as a filename.

By: rjfvaac

rjfvaac — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 01:16:33 +0000

Well, I've just solved my little issue, after talking to a friend. I only needed to change your script from set the clipboard to currentPath to: set the clipboard to "\"" & currentPath & "\"" And all is perfect :D Thanks again

By: rjfvaac

rjfvaac — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:42:08 +0000

Thanks for the script, it’s very very useful! But I seem to have a little problem using it… When the folder has ” ” (spaces) and I want to copy the path to the Terminal, it isn’t able to find the directory :-(

Is there any easy (or obvious) solution for this issue?

Thanks!
Ricardo

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:11:42 +0000

Thanks for this little tidbit. Very handy.

One quick note, on my machine (Mac Pro, 10.5.6) I had to change the error dialog code so it looks like:

on finderErrorMsg()
display dialog “Unable to copy a path to the clipboard.
Make sure Finder is referencing a directory/folder
within the file system.” with icon caution with title “Error”
buttons(“Ok”)
end finderErrorMsg

Otherwise I’d get an error that “a icon can’t go after buttons” or something.

By: JessD

JessD — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:18:07 +0000

That is exactly what I was looking for; Thank you!