Geek Posted December 3, 2011 Posted December 3, 2011 <div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/finder-path-bar.png" alt="Finder Path Bar from the Home Folder" title="finder-path-bar" width="457" height="93" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24521" /></p> <p><em>Here’s another tip from Keir Thomas, author of <a href="http://pragprog.com/book/ktmack/mac-kung-fu">Mac Kung Fu</a>, a new book with over 300 tips, tricks, hints and hacks for Mac OS X Lion. It’s <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1934356824/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=oxd-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1934356824">available from Amazon</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=oxd-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1934356824" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />, and also in <a href="http://pragprog.com/book/ktmack/mac-kung-fu">eBook form for all eReader devices</a>, including Kindle.</em></p> <p>Finder can show the path to the currently browsed folder (that is, something like Lion->Users->John->Music->MP3 collection). Just click View->Show Path Bar. However, there’s a slight problem—the path is listed from the root of the hard disk up to the current directory. If all you ever do is browse your home directory, then this information isn’t much use and the display can get bunched up very quickly.</p> <p>Luckily there’s a secret setting you can use to cause the path bar to relate everything it shows to your home folder. In other words, should you browse your Pictures folder, the path bar will read something like John->Pictures, rather than Lion->Users->John->Pictures. See the screenshot up top for a before and after example.</p> <p>Open a Terminal window (Finder->Applications->Utilities->Terminal) and type the following:</p> <p><code>defaults write com.apple.finder PathBarRootAtHome -bool TRUE;killall Finder</code></p> <p>The changes will take effect immediately. Should you wish at a later date to revert to the default path bar, open a Terminal window and type the following:</p> <p><code>defaults delete com.apple.finder PathBarRootAtHome;killall Finder</code></p> <p><strong>Bonus tip</strong>: Files can be dragged and dropped onto any entry within the path bar to move the file to that location (hold Option before releasing the mouse button to copy the file instead).</p> <p><em>Note you can also <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2007/12/02/show-full-directory-path-in-finder-window-title-bars/">display the full path in Finder windows titlebars</a>. </em></p> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/8QA0VUPZqm0FM92KhPtaVHq_WrM/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/8QA0VUPZqm0FM92KhPtaVHq_WrM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/8QA0VUPZqm0FM92KhPtaVHq_WrM/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/8QA0VUPZqm0FM92KhPtaVHq_WrM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=twwNWHJ9HKo:2PowelM_Qjc:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=twwNWHJ9HKo:2PowelM_Qjc:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=twwNWHJ9HKo:2PowelM_Qjc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=twwNWHJ9HKo:2PowelM_Qjc:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=twwNWHJ9HKo:2PowelM_Qjc:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=twwNWHJ9HKo:2PowelM_Qjc:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=twwNWHJ9HKo:2PowelM_Qjc:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/osxdaily/~4/twwNWHJ9HKo" height="1" width="1"/> View the full article
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