Can Spotlight show me a full file path?

The ⌘ key in Spotlight will show the Apple HFS path to the document punctuated as: Startup-Drive • Users • yourname • Desktop • filename. There is no provision in Spotlight to show the POSIX (UNIX) path as /Users/yourname/Desktop/filename.ext.

Pressing ⌘R will open a Finder window with the specific file preselected.

Or you could save this AppleScript as a script or application on your Desktop, and once you have selected something in the Finder, just double-click the script to bring up the Show Info panel:

tell application "Finder"
	if exists (selection as alias list) then
		tell application "System Events"
			activate
			tell application process "Finder"
				activate
				set frontmost to true
				keystroke "i" using {option down, command down}
			end tell
		end tell
	end if
end tell
return

Command I will open the Finder Get Info window for the file and that has the full path. Unfortunately it seems to open behind any other open windows.

Try ⌥⌘i instead. Won't scoot under anything, and appears in the right, third of the screen.

VikingOSX wrote:

Try ⌥⌘i instead. Won't scoot under anything, and appears in the right, third of the screen.

Good idea -- but not sure my memory is capable of 3 keys!