There's one that gives you the same info as cmd-clicking the title.

The finder window title trick goes way back to at least OS8 or even further. It's very handy.

This works in many applications, such as QuickTime Player, TextEdit, even MS Office apps. Command-click on the document's icon in the title bar and you instantly see the folder hierarchy. This is a big time-saver when I want to open another document that I know is probably in the same folder as the current document: just command-click the title icon, select the enclosing folder, and you are instantly switched to the Finder with that folder open.

I use this in Eudora a lot! If I have a message open, but have closed the mailbox in which it sits, this comes in handy. Command+Click on the message's header bar and the email folder hierarchy appears. I can then open the mailbox directly without having to navigate through my menus. This is great for me because I have a lot of hierarchy applied to my mailboxes (Eudora Folder>E-Newsletters>Business>SCORE.org, etc.). Stangely, though...this doesn't appear to work in Apple's Mail.

Works in Safari! Will let you navigate backwards thought the url.

This is sweet.

Just as cool as Cmd-R in Dashboard to restart a widget.

Me? I use PathFinder, which ofers a live updated path to my present file location, plus a heap of other features. Try it out, it's excellent.

QUOTE: "Command-Click works in the Dock, too, but just a little differently. Command-Clicking an icon in the Dock opens a new window that shows the original item's location. The window is always in icon view, so you can just Command-Click its title to see exactly where that item lives on your hard drive."


How about just using the contextual menu item "Show in Finder"? It's only a right-click away!

Also, the window opened by Command-clicking on the icon maintains whatever view that folder had the last time you opened it. If you changed it to list view, then that's how it displays. Even the window location and size are the same.

That's it: those icons in the title bars are called proxy icons, and where a new feature introduced by Mac OS 8.5, but support from them was up to the programmer.

Mac OS X made it straightforward for Cocoa applications to use those proxy icons, and easier for Carbon applications, so that's why we see them everywhere in Mac OS X.

By the way, is possible that proxy icons where a feature grabbed from NeXT: they served as a way to know at a glance whether the active document had been saved or not, something that was available for NeXT since the very first version… Now we also have the filled red close window button.