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PathSnagger 2.0b2

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Contextual menu for copying location of files. Free

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Bergen Street Software

PathSnagger (formerly known as CopyPath) adds a Contextual Menu Item option to the Contextual Menu in the Finder. Control-click a document, application, folder, mounted volume, zip disk, anything, and easily copy the full path to that item directly to your clipboard.

What's New

Version 2.0b2:

Added automatic updates via Sparkle.
Added "Finder Friendly" option to allow pasting into Finder's "Go To Folder" dialog.

Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 or later.

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Cowicide commented on 12 Jan 2012

Does this still work in Lion?

[Version 2.0b2]

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Mikael B commented on 07 Oct 2011

Requirements: "PPC" *and* "10.6 or later"? Well, that should prove interesting.

[Version 2.0b2]

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Cowicide reviewed on 26 Apr 2011

I use this for when I'm making notes about everything from software/hardware issues to client projects. I just select the folder I want to reference and right-click and choose "Snag Path File..." in Services. I then paste that link into TextEdit (command-K) and I'm done. That way if I'm writing notes I can simply link to the folder(s) or file(s) in question directly in my text and click on them later to pull them up wherever they are. I do wish I had the option to have this come up directly without having to go into the Services folder first, but that's no big deal. Thanks to the Dev for making a great resource available!

[Version 2.0b2]

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Schoschie commented on 25 May 2007

The developer of PathSnagger appears not to be too interested in fixing bugs. PathSnagger still doesn't handle paths that contain non-ASCII characters. While I very much appreciate freeware, it's a bit sad that programs like this are not maintained.

I have found a very good replacement to PathSnagger, which doesn't have the aforementioned problem. It can only copy paths in UNIX style and without quotes, but this is perfect for most everyone.

http://www.hsoi.com/hsoishop/software/

[Version 1.1b5]

+11

peanut butter commented on 07 May 2007

On a MBP with 10.4.9 I get "Preferences Error". You cannot open PathSnagger pref pane on this computer.
Bummer.

[Version 1.1b5]

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Cowicide replied on 02 Feb 2011

says 10.6 or later in requirements

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hced reviewed on 07 Jan 2007

Works perfectly great! Thanks.

May I suggest that you add some hint to the user - either in the Preference pane itself, or in the ReadMe file - that he/she can delete the Prefrerence itself from the System Preferences, to free up some space? That us, when they're done setting the preferences.

[Version 1.1b5]

Flysi reviewed on 24 Apr 2006

Great little app - I use it every day in a mixed Mac/PC environment, and it's so useful for sending paths quickly to producers and art directors for reviewing work.

It would be even more awesome if it could convert between Unix/Windows file path formats (ie. switch between forward- and back-slashes) as appropriate. I'm sure that's do-able; I'm just not the guy for the job.

[Version 1.1b5]

Anonymous reviewed on 19 Sep 2005

Simple and very useful. Just noticed this version and will really appreciate the new options. Thanks for the great utility!

[Version 1.1b3]

Anonymous reviewed on 26 May 2005

This is a great addition for AppleScripters. Gets it done and into your script in a flash.

[Version 1.1b3]

Anonymous reviewed on 26 May 2005

This is a great contextual menu, but it still has some issues:

Characters like parenthesis, available in file names, are not coded correctly in UNIX-style paths. They appear like "(" and ")", and should be escaped "(" and ")".

I haven't checked, but maybe some other characters should be escaped.

Hope this helps.

[Version 1.1b3]

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Schoschie had trouble on 17 Oct 2006

I've just updated a bug report I filed earlier:
http://www.bergenstreetsoftware.com/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=10

Path Snagger has a problem with paths that contain special characters such as German umlauts, French accented characters etc. These are represented as escape sequences of the form xxx. PathSnagger apparently gets confused by these and does not copy the path in that case. Since we have a LOT of paths that contain umlauts and the like, it would be so cool if this could be fixed.

Other than this, PathSnagger is extremely useful and I recommend it to everybody.

[Version 1.1b5]

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