Filename path with mac?? Help

Find the file whose path you need to know using Finder
Then right click, or ctrl-click on the file and select 'Get Info'
A dialog will appear showing all sorts of data about the file.
The path is shown next to 'where:'

Also, open any finder window, right-click on a blank part of the tool bar (immediately below the title bar) and select'Customize...' now drag the 'path' button onto the tool bar. Now whener ever you need to know the absolute path of a file, just click the 'Path' button.

More information: Mac (and all Unix operating systems) do not use Drive letters as you have probably guessed. All paths take the form....
\volume name\folder\folder\folder\file.extension

Finally, most of your 'special folders' such as Documents etc will live at :
\Macintosh HD\username\Documents

The desktop is at
\Macintosh HD\username\Desktop
and so on.

Obviously the 'username' is your logon name, and 'Macintosh HD' is the volume name of your boot volume. It may be different from 'Macintosh HD'.

I hope this helps.

Kenny

Some of the information in your post is correct, some not. The "Get Info" stuff, and the Finder window customisation are fine. But there are two problems:

Firstly, OS X uses a solidus or " forward slash" as a path separator, not the "backslash" used by Windows.

Secondly the volume name does not usually appear in the path, if it relates to the boot volume. So a user's Documents folder has the path "/Users/<username>/Documents". If another volume is involved, it would be /Volumes/<volumename>/rest ofpath…

There is potentially another problem with spaces in filenames, which may or may not be relevant here.

mediamst

You might want to try PathSnagger if you need to do much of this. It will take care of escaping spaces in filenames for you.