Option 1 – to discover the location of a file: I find that many Mac users are not aware of the very simple ways to find out the location of an item. Some of the existing options for finding out WHERE an item are stored are worth reviewing first before I announce the new hidden pathname feature. But being able to easily grab the pathname to an item to document this location or perhaps even enter this pathname into apps such as Terminal to execute a command on a given path has not always been so easy. Here’s a rather useful techy one.įor a while now in OS X, there have been plenty of ways to find out WHERE on your computer a file or folder is stored. Now that OS X El Capitan (OS X 10.11) has been out for a little while, I have managed to stumble across some of those cheeky hidden features (AKA Easter Eggs) that Apple love to slip into an OS update.
