Comments on: Quick Tip: Window Title Bar Icon

By: hyearn

hyearn — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:14:10 +0000

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By: John Sawyer

John Sawyer — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 07:13:37 +0000

As the article states, the item being talked about here is the window’s “title bar”, not the “menu bar”–in OS X, windows don’t have a menu bar–you find that only in Windows and some other OSs. The menu bar in OS X is the thing at the top of the screen.

By: Jono

Jono — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:26:18 +0000

I knew about it in Finder, & stuff like if you dragged the icon off a search it created a Saved Search Folder etc. but didn’t know you could do that with Safari

By: zahadum

zahadum — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 01:21:14 +0000

not sure, but i recall the term ‘badge’ being used for the ‘proxy icon’.

By: droughtquake

droughtquake — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 23:58:59 +0000

You can also drag the Proxy Icon to move the document/folder to the trash, for example.

By: Danny

Danny — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 07:03:10 +0000

Just FYI - I think its called the “proxy icon”

By: Niclet

Niclet — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 21:41:23 +0000

Wow! thanks for these answers.

I found also that if I open a blank TextEdit window in text format (.txt) and I drag any file on it, it will show the long path of this file.

In fact, I think any text format (.txt) container will act the same : if I drag a file from the Finder to the (activated) Google search area on top-right of a Safari window, the path appears. Fascinating!

By: Schaller

Schaller — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 19:32:03 +0000

To follow up on Niclet’s question: Select the file in the Finder, Command-C copy it, then Command-V paste in the Terminal. It’s all the same thing.

By: Niclet

Niclet — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:40:29 +0000

Well, I think Schaller had just answer my question.

By: Niclet

Niclet — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:34:49 +0000

Thanks Nick,

BTW, speaking of paths, is there any way to easily get the (unix) path of a file?
(like ~/Documents/MyText.txt or ~/Library/AFolder/AnotherFolder/ThisFolder)
By clicking on it with a certain key combination, or by a kind of rapid action, and get it in the clipboard for example?
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I know I’m a bit out of topic but it’s still related.

By: Schaller

Schaller — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:22:48 +0000

You can drag those menu bar document/folder icons to a Terminal window, too, which will drop the document’s full path into your command line. If you mix your Finder with your Terminal a lot, this feature is pretty handy.

(It also works for any Finder document/folder icon, for that matter.)

By: Scottle

Scottle — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:45:30 +0000

It goes back to Mac OS 8.5.

By: Nick Santilli

Nick Santilli — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:31:26 +0000

Niclet
from a folder, no. This trick is just about the window’s menu bar.
However, you can check out a contextual menu plugin (think, right click) called FolderGlance. it functions to let you right click a folder and show you the nested files/folders within it…

Thanks for the Safari tip guys - being a Camino user, I missed that little tidbit.

By: Niclet

Niclet — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:01:12 +0000

Is there a way to do the same thing when you just clic on a folder?

By: Frank

Frank — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:28:58 +0000

Didn’t know about the safari thing. This has been one of those cool, untrumpeted little features of Mac OS going all the way back to what, OS 7? 8?

Makes you marvel at just how clever Apple is.

By: Galley

Galley — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:55:38 +0000

Similarly, command-clicking on the title in Safari will show you paths all the way to the root directory of the website you are currently viewing.

By: Xander

Xander — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:54:51 +0000

You can even do it within Safari