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How to add a "copy path" option to the Windows context menu
by Brad Linder Sep 29th 2009 at 5:00PM
Copy Path is a utility that adds a... well, a "copy path" option to the Windows right-click context menu. It's similar to ClipPath, a program we covered a few years ago. but Copy Path has one option that ClipPath doesn't, which is the ability to copy not just the path for an individual file, but also the path for a folder and/or the parent folder of the file or folder you just clicked on.
If you're still not convinced that ClipPath is actually useful, think about how many times you've tried to upload an email attachment and had to click the browse button and sort through folders to find the file you want to upload. With Copy Path (or ClipPath), if you already have the file open in another window you can just right-click, copy the file path and paste it into the attachment window for your email client.
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PK said 5:32PM on 9-29-2009
There's SendTo Toys, which includes "Send to Clipboard as Name". It is a more elegant solution since it uses the Send To menu and doesn't add another item in the already-long context menu:
http://www.gabrieleponti.com/software/
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drown said 5:49PM on 9-29-2009
@PK
Tnx, just what I needed :)
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mark justice hinton said 8:30PM on 9-29-2009
Copy as path is built into Vista and Win7 -- hold down the Shift key as you right-click over any file. The full path ending in the filename is copied to the Clipboard. Not quite as versatile as this program, but native.
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hazard said 8:30PM on 9-29-2009
I've used shell extensions like this before and it's too annoying to have the additional options, best to have a singleton.
PathCopyEx for WinXP - http://www.mlin.net/other.shtml
Shift+Right Click for Vista Win7
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SquareWheel said 7:46AM on 9-30-2009
Why not just copy the path from the explorer window itself?
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(v) said 9:31AM on 10-02-2009
Path2Clipboard do the same but more complex
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Tom said 9:08AM on 9-30-2009
It's part of a larger program, but Altap Salamander (http://www.altap.cz/) has an even better feature, letting you copy not only the path, but you can choose to copy the UNC path. So if my file is on a network path I've mapped as drive L:, but my co-workers haven't learned how to map network drives, I can choose to either copy the path as L:\path\to\file.txt or as \\fileserver\path\to\file.txt. It's a big help at the office, since I can always copy a path that anyone can use.
The program's nice otherwise too, a good Norton Commander 2 pane file manager.
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i said 8:33PM on 10-04-2009
nice idea but the start menu shortcuts for many programs stopped working after install.
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