When browsing through your files and folders in Finder, it is easy to get lost and not know where you are or what directory you are browsing. If you have several folders of the same name in different locations on your Mac, it is quite confusing when you do not know the path of the folder you are in. With the path bar enabled, you will always know where the file or folder selected is located.
It can also be activated via the “System Preferences” - “ Accessibility ” - “Mouse & Trackpad” path; Click on “Enable Mouse Keys”; As a result, the numbers on the keyboard with a digital unit become “arrows”. To “click” with such a “mouse”, press the number 5 to press and hold, press 0, to release, press the point. Setting the Mac OS PATH. Next, you need to add this path to the '/etc/paths.d' directory on your system, which affects the system PATH variable. You can do this with the following one-line terminal command, which will ask you for your password (again.
The path bar is a slim strip near the bottom of your Finder window. To enable the path bar, first open a Finder window. This is done by double-clicking on your Macintosh hard drive icon from the desktop. Next, go to the View menu and choose Show Path Bar. The Show Path Bar option is grayed out if a Finder window is not open.
The left most end of the path bar is the top level, which will always show the drive (also known as the volume) where the window’s contents are located. This maybe your Mac hard drive, a network drive, iDisk or an external storage device. The top level is followed by arrows pointing to subfolders that show the path of the currently selected item. You can move up the hierarchy by clicking on a folder along the path bar. You can also use the path bar to move files to other locations in the hierarchy - just click and drag a file to a folder along the path bar.
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Then I needed quicker access to some of the folders so I moved them back to my desktop.
Now they all have a little arrow in the bottom left corner.
Why is this?
Is it important?
When I put them into the one main folder they retain the little arrow which is different to the triangle that allows access to the folder contents in list view though seems to have the same function once in the main folder. They don't have that triangle any more.
it is a curly arrow rather than a little triangle.
If there was a way to upload screen shots I am sure you would understand properly what I am trying to say.
At first this used to be on just one sub folder now it is on many of them.
Thanks for any insight on this
Shirley
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Posted on Jun 26, 2010 9:19 AM