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Copy paths to files with one click on Mac OS Classic!

CopyPaths is a lean, robust, and easy to use Contextual Menu Plugin with a single focus: To copy full paths to files in many different formats.

I originally wrote CopyPaths because I couldn't find a small and simple utility to do what it does easily. CopyPaths is just about as painless as it gets. I hope you like it!

1. Copy full pathnames of one or more selected files to the clipboard.
2. CopyPaths will Automatically format those pathnames for instant use in C Source files, Pascal files, MPW, or AppleScript, and More!
3. Default your own special format for paths in CopyPaths' own resource fork with ResEdit!

We don't have a CopyPaths contextual menu for OS X, but we've become quite addicted to the AppleScript Droplet below. Paste this text into a new AppleScript in ScriptEditor, and save it as an unbundled application. Then drop your files onto it!

on open fileList
	activate
	display dialog "POSIX or HFS Path?" buttons ⌉
	   {"POSIX", "HFS", "Cancel"} default button 1
	set the button_pressed to the button returned of the result
	
	set buff to ""
	repeat with f in fileList
		if the button_pressed is "HFS" then
			set onePath to (f as string)
		else if the button_pressed is "POSIX" then
			set p to POSIX path of f
			set onePath to (p as string)
		else
			return
		end if
		
		set buff to buff & onePath & return
	end repeat
	
	-- get rid of trailing return
	set buff to text 1 through ((length of buff) - 1) of buff
	
	set the clipboard to buff
end open

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