{"id":67,"date":"2008-04-13T14:31:20","date_gmt":"2008-04-13T18:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/2008\/04\/13\/copy-file-path-to-clipboard\/"},"modified":"2008-04-13T14:31:20","modified_gmt":"2008-04-13T18:31:20","slug":"copy-file-path-to-clipboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/tech-blog\/2008\/04\/13\/copy-file-path-to-clipboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Copy File Path to Clipboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s say you&#8217;re sending an email via your Gmail or other Web email account and want to attach a file. Or maybe you&#8217;re uploading a file to your blog or just about any other Web-based application, but you&#8217;d rather not bother with that annoying <strong>Browse <\/strong>button since you&#8217;re already looking at the file on your desktop or in an open window. What do you do? Unless you&#8217;re using Outlook and can simply drag &#8216;n drop the file into your email message, it can be a pain to get a file into a Web email or Web app. <\/p>\n<p>Enter a super-simple utility that will make this process really easy: <a href=\"http:\/\/stefan.bertels.org\/en\/clipboardpath\">ClipboardPath<\/a>. Just download and install it, and then you&#8217;ll be able to right-click on any file to <strong>Copy Path to Clipboard<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><center><img src='http:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/snag-1844.png' alt='Copy Path to Clipboard' \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;then simply press control-V to paste your file into your Web-based email attachment field, WordPress file upload field, or whatever Web application you&#8217;re using:<\/p>\n<p><center><img src='http:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/snag-1843.png' alt='Control-V to paste' \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>If there&#8217;s a field with a browse button, you can kiss that browse button goodbye. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s say you&#8217;re sending an email via your Gmail or other Web email account and want to attach a file. Or maybe you&#8217;re uploading a file to your blog or just about any other Web-based application, but you&#8217;d rather not bother with that annoying Browse button since you&#8217;re already looking at the file on your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,15,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-os-tips","category-utilities","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}