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a W7 file explorer GUI question

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Al Dykes

Flightless Bird
After pointing to a specific file in File Explorer, what is the
easiest way to get the file name and filesystem path into a text
string that could, for instance be pasted into an email msg?

--
Al Dykes
News is something someone wants to suppress, everything else is advertising.
- Lord Northcliffe, publisher of the Daily Mail
 
C

Char Jackson

Flightless Bird
On 10 Oct 2010 14:22:59 -0400, adykes@panix.com (Al Dykes) wrote:

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>After pointing to a specific file in File Explorer, what is the
>easiest way to get the file name and filesystem path into a text
>string that could, for instance be pasted into an email msg?

Manually? I suppose you can take the path from Explorer's Address Bar
and then just tack the filename onto the end of it.
 
D

Dave-UK

Flightless Bird
"Al Dykes" <adykes@panix.com> wrote in message news:i8t0a3$e70$1@panix1.panix.com...
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> After pointing to a specific file in File Explorer, what is the
> easiest way to get the file name and filesystem path into a text
> string that could, for instance be pasted into an email msg?
>
> --
> Al Dykes
> News is something someone wants to suppress, everything else is advertising.
> - Lord Northcliffe, publisher of the Daily Mail
>

In Windows Explorer press the shift key and right-click the file
and select ' Copy as path'.
Then you can paste into a document etc.
 
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johnbee

Flightless Bird
"Dave-UK" <Here@Home.com> wrote in message
news:vo6dna1WuKXtli_RnZ2dnUVZ7oidnZ2d@giganews.com...
>
> "Al Dykes" <adykes@panix.com> wrote in message
> news:i8t0a3$e70$1@panix1.panix.com...
>>
>> After pointing to a specific file in File Explorer, what is the
>> easiest way to get the file name and filesystem path into a text
>> string that could, for instance be pasted into an email msg?
>>
>> --
>> Al Dykes
>> News is something someone wants to suppress, everything else is
>> advertising.
>> - Lord Northcliffe, publisher of the Daily Mail
>>
>
> In Windows Explorer press the shift key and right-click the file
> and select ' Copy as path'. Then you can paste into a document etc.
>
>
>
>
>

Flipping heck! That is a clever trick I have not seen before.
 
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Dave-UK

Flightless Bird
"johnbee" <johnbrockbank@com.invalid> wrote in message
news:i8t37h$8tp$1@news.eternal-september.org...
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> "Dave-UK" <Here@Home.com> wrote in message news:vo6dna1WuKXtli_RnZ2dnUVZ7oidnZ2d@giganews.com...
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>> "Al Dykes" <adykes@panix.com> wrote in message news:i8t0a3$e70$1@panix1.panix.com...
>>>
>>> After pointing to a specific file in File Explorer, what is the
>>> easiest way to get the file name and filesystem path into a text
>>> string that could, for instance be pasted into an email msg?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Al Dykes
>>> News is something someone wants to suppress, everything else is advertising.
>>> - Lord Northcliffe, publisher of the Daily Mail
>>>
>>
>> In Windows Explorer press the shift key and right-click the file
>> and select ' Copy as path'. Then you can paste into a document etc.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> Flipping heck! That is a clever trick I have not seen before.

Also shift-right-click on a file and notice the 'Send to' has more targets.
 
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Al Dykes

Flightless Bird
In article <vo6dna1WuKXtli_RnZ2dnUVZ7oidnZ2d@giganews.com>,
Dave-UK <Here@Home.com> wrote:
>
>"Al Dykes" <adykes@panix.com> wrote in message news:i8t0a3$e70$1@panix1.panix.com...
>>
>> After pointing to a specific file in File Explorer, what is the
>> easiest way to get the file name and filesystem path into a text
>> string that could, for instance be pasted into an email msg?
>>
>> --
>> Al Dykes
>> News is something someone wants to suppress, everything else is advertising.
>> - Lord Northcliffe, publisher of the Daily Mail
>>
>
>In Windows Explorer press the shift key and right-click the file
>and select ' Copy as path'.
>Then you can paste into a document etc.
>
>
>


Thanks

--
Al Dykes
News is something someone wants to suppress, everything else is advertising.
- Lord Northcliffe, publisher of the Daily Mail
 
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Stan Brown

Flightless Bird
On Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:52:29 +0100, Dave-UK wrote:
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> "Al Dykes" <adykes@panix.com> wrote in message news:i8t0a3$e70$1@panix1.panix.com...
> >
> > After pointing to a specific file in File Explorer, what is the
> > easiest way to get the file name and filesystem path into a text
> > string that could, for instance be pasted into an email msg?
>
> In Windows Explorer press the shift key and right-click the file
> and select ' Copy as path'.
> Then you can paste into a document etc.

It's nice that we have these extra capabilities, but I'm not
enchanted with the idea of two separate right-click menus. I suppose
I could use Autohotkey to change right-click into shift-right-click.
:)

--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com
Shikata ga nai...
 
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Dave-UK

Flightless Bird
"Stan Brown" <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> wrote in message
news:MPG.271cce5ccac7318f98c6aa@news.individual.net...
> On Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:52:29 +0100, Dave-UK wrote:
>>
>> "Al Dykes" <adykes@panix.com> wrote in message news:i8t0a3$e70$1@panix1.panix.com...
>> >
>> > After pointing to a specific file in File Explorer, what is the
>> > easiest way to get the file name and filesystem path into a text
>> > string that could, for instance be pasted into an email msg?
>>
>> In Windows Explorer press the shift key and right-click the file
>> and select ' Copy as path'.
>> Then you can paste into a document etc.
>
> It's nice that we have these extra capabilities, but I'm not
> enchanted with the idea of two separate right-click menus. I suppose
> I could use Autohotkey to change right-click into shift-right-click.
> :)
>

I suppose it depends on how often you need to use the added functions. I had a
quick look with AutoHotkey and it seems a bit of an overkill!
But if you are used to programming AutoHotkey it's probably easy enough to do.
 
C

croy

Flightless Bird
On 10 Oct 2010 14:22:59 -0400, adykes@panix.com (Al Dykes)
wrote:

>
>After pointing to a specific file in File Explorer, what is the
>easiest way to get the file name and filesystem path into a text
>string that could, for instance be pasted into an email msg?


There is, err... at least there WAS, Ninotech's PathCopy.

I'm not able to find the Ninotech page any more, but it
looks like many glomers are offering it up.

--
croy
 
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Musawwir Spiegel

Flightless Bird
Thank you Dave-UK for your posting. I had posted the same question
today, not having recognized that Al Dykes question addressed the same
matter.

Before I had posted my question, I had searched in vain the book
"Windows 7 - the missing manual" and had done a Google search, all in
vain.

This newsgroup is a god-send.

Con Muchas Gracias,

Musawwir


"Dave-UK" <Here@Home.com> wrote:

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>"Al Dykes" <adykes@panix.com> wrote in message news:i8t0a3$e70$1@panix1.panix.com...
>>
>> After pointing to a specific file in File Explorer, what is the
>> easiest way to get the file name and filesystem path into a text
>> string that could, for instance be pasted into an email msg?
>>
>> --
>> Al Dykes
>> News is something someone wants to suppress, everything else is advertising.
>> - Lord Northcliffe, publisher of the Daily Mail
>>
>
>In Windows Explorer press the shift key and right-click the file
>and select ' Copy as path'.
>Then you can paste into a document etc.
>
>
>
>
>
 
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