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yeah finder is pretty annoying. I don't know how to just get the path of where I'm at a lot of the time.


There’s a toggle to enable a path bar in the View menu, along with an option to enable a status bar and a bunch of other things.

It pays to explore the menus of apps under macOS — it’s not like under GNOME or Windows where menubars are vestigial and paltry if they exist at all, Mac apps actually put a lot of useful things in them.


I hate Finder and use Forklift, but if you alt-click (or command/ctrl, I can't tell on my keyboard) the top where it says the file name you'll be shown a tree of the path you're in. It's not the full file path in a text window unfortunately.




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