Open the Finder, on the Menu bar, select View, then click “Show Path Bar” to enable a graphical representation of your folder path. See below for a screenshot of the Path Bar.
Here’s my Path Bar. I’m in /balrog0/Users/Shared
If you’re used to working in the Terminal…then you know that know which path you’re in is pretty important; there’s nothing like doing rm -Rf *.* in the wrong directory. Anyway, if you want to see the UNIX path in the Finder, do the following:
Open Terminal and type or paste the following and hit enter:
defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES
Restart the Finder or restart your computer. To restart the Finder, press the following key combo:
Cmd option Esc. This will bring up the Application Kill window. Select the Finder, click restart.
For the UNIX/LInux geeks, just do:
ps aux | grep Finder
find the process ID and…
sudo kill -9 <process id>
The Finder will automatically restart.
After performing either of the aforementioned methods for killing the Finder, open a new Finder window (if one does not open automagically).
Look at the top of the window and you will notice the UNIX path in the title. /balrog0/Users/Shared is shown in the screenshot below.
December 3rd, 2009 at 5:16 pm
You can also do ‘killall Finder’ in the terminal. Saves you from having to track down the process. :)
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January 8th, 2010 at 10:18 am
You definitely could use killall. I don’t use it because it has the potential to be dangerous. I prefer to use kill on the specific process ID; It’s more precise. kill -15 is also more gentle than -9. -15 allows the application end gracefully…-9 just kills it…brute force style.