It is not the role of Preview, or Safari to track down file locations on macOS. although you can see a file's current folder location by clicking on its title bar name in Preview. It is the role of a properly configured Finder.
Mine is setup this way via Finder Preferences:
- General
- Check all Show these items on the desktop
- New Finder windows show: [ 🏠 yourname ]
- Sidebar
- Check 🏠 yourname
- Check any other that you want to see that are not defaulted, including iCloud Drive if you use it
- Advanced
- When performing a search: [ Search the Current Folder ]
I also suggest that you enable the following in the Finder View menu when you have a Finder window present
- Show Path Bar
- Show Status Bar
There are three ways you can search from the Finder on your Mac without using a third-party tool like EasyFind.
- Spotlight 🔍 from the menu bar
- Select a result from the search and press ⌘R to open a Finder window with the item selected
- Press the ⌘ key to view the full path to the selected file
- Spotlight from the search field in a regular Finder window
- Using ⌘F shortcut to open a Finder Find window, where you combine search criteria in the Find process
Items 1 and 2 immediately above, depend on enabling Spotlight to index certain search result categories listed in System Preferences : Spotlight : Search Results. You enable Spotlight indexing by dragging and dropping the startup drive (e.g. Macintosh HD) icon onto the open Spotlight Preferences : Privacy tab, then removing it from that panel. Then you can use Spotlight reserved words to Narrow your search results on Mac.