CopyPathMenu : Copy the file path directly from the context menu and send it to clipboard or an installed email client with this lightweight application
Just like every individual can easily be identified according to the home address, so do files come with a destination that can be revealed by looking up the path in the properties panel. File management operations rely on file paths, and if you need to quickly grab the destination of a file, then CopyPathMenu might be what you need.
Integrates in the context menu
The application takes only a little while to get installed on your computer, and you can check out the set of features before you know it. There’s no actual main window the application, because it cleverly integrates itself in the system context menu, thus making it even easier to copy a file path.However, you can manage certain things to make the application better and easier to work with. The options menu, which you also access from the context menu, gives you the possibility to choose the type of path to copy, with options for original, as uniform resource identifier, old DOS style, and C/C++ syntax. Checking another option also lets you grab network path.
Send path to clipboard or email client
CopyPathMenu provides examples in the options menu for how the path is shown and sent to the clipboard. Moreover, you can set the application to only copy file name, without path. This is useful in case you decide to use the other feature that sends the copied path to your default desktop email client.However, the application doesn’t work with all kinds of email clients, so you need to use either Mozilla Thunderbird, or MS Outlook for this task. Sending the path to the email client is simple enough, and is the second option in the context menu, besides the one to send path to clipboard.
A few last words
we come to the conclusion that CopyPathMenu might not be an application for everyday activities, but it does manage to save you a considerable amount of time grabbing file path for more items, especially if you use it along with a clipboard extender. It cleverly integrated in the context menu, making it easy to use even by inexperien
CopyPathMenu runs on
Windows 10/11
and is available under the
Freeware
license
— the installer is 1.5 MB.
We’ve catalogued it under
Desktop Tools.
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