Ventura graphics Mac

Stephen Buonopane sbuonopa at bucknell.edu
Mon Jan 23 21:43:17 UTC 2023



> On Jan 23, 2023, at 3:19 PM, Chris Menzel <chris.menzel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> For those of you facing this issue, here are two other ways to copy the full path and file name, which I think are fewer mouse clicks than opening the Get Info..
> 
> 1) In the Finder, right click on the file to bring up the contextual menu. Then press the option key. You will then see Copy “my file.pdf” change to Copy “my file.pdf” as Pathname. Paste into LyX Insert Graphics file field. Includes full path and file name. 
> 
> Holy smoke, I've been using MacOS since OS X 10.0 and (I'm embarrassed to admit) I didn't know about this! It's massively better than my suggestion, obviously. Any idea how long it's been around?

No idea. I have been using an automator script for this for the last 5 years or so. (Highly doubt it was there from OS X day one.)
In general if one “copies” or “drags" a file from Finder into a text based application (eg Terminal) you get the path and file name. Even works using the little icon in title bar of most apps (eg Preview). This has worked for on the order of 10 years.  


> 
> Just to note, I found another workaround for users of the fantastic utility Launchbar that doesn't require using the Finder at all. If you call up Launchbar with your hotkey, typing a few characters unique to your graphic's filename will bring the filename up in your Launchbar window. Hitting right-arrow or Ctrl-F will then bring up a list where the second item is the full pathname for the file, which can be copied to the clipboard with a Cmd-C.
> 
> -chris 

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