Right-justify title text in finder tab

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Right-justify title text in finder tab

Before upgrading to Catalina, I could see the name of the folder open in a Finder tab. Now I see /Users/MyAccountName/Folder1/Folder2/... , which usually truncates before reaching the name of the displayed folder. How can I right-justify that text and expose the bottom-level folder name? Or, at least get rid of /Users/MyAccountName. In High Sierra it used to show only the bottom-level folder name.

I've looked in System Preferences, Finder Preferences, and macOS Help without success.

MacBook

Posted on Sep 4, 2020 8:37 PM

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TomLex Author

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Sep 10, 2020 12:53 PM in response to Barney-15E

The TechJunkie article cited above shows how to put the full path at the top of all Finder windows (and also, it turns out, at the tops of tabs). So I had to disable that using the Terminal command

defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool false

followed by cmd-opt-esc, select Finder, and relaunch it.

Now I have just the open folder displayed at the tops of tabs and of the window, with the full path shown at the bottom of the window. That's what it used to do in High Sierra, and what I want.

Thanks for the suggestion.

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Barney-15E

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Sep 10, 2020 1:37 PM in response to TomLex

That's what it used to do in High Sierra

And, it is what is supposed to do in Mojave and Catalina. Why yours was damaged is difficult to determine.

It is also a preference that must be written out to have it occur. By default, that preference doesn't exist. It's not as if the 0 could turn into a 1. The entire setting doesn't exist in a default Finder preference list. Something had to enter the entire domain/default pair with a value of true.

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Barney-15E

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Sep 4, 2020 8:59 PM in response to TomLex

This may have been what happened to you: https://www.techjunkie.com/show-path-finder-title-bar/

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