MacOS – Made a change to ‘Path length on Finder Tabs’ – I need to change it back to default

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I read an article that led me to change the way the file pathway shows up on tabs in Finder. So instead of a Tab just reading "/Downloads", it starts with /Users/MyName/Downloads. This is NOT what I wanted to do, and I don't know how to change it back. The filenames are so long that if I have 6 or more tabs going across, then file paths are truncated so they all look like they read the same thing, and I have to click on each tab to see what it is. This is a big time waster when you have to do it several times a day.

I copied and pasted some text in to the terminal application to change Finder. I'm running MacOS Catalina 10.15.6

Can anyone tell me how to change back Finder to default?

Best Answer

The unix command you used in terminal was the following:

defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES

This adds a key to the Finder user defaults — _FXShowPosixPathInTitle — and sets it to true, which enables showing the full posix path of the file in the title bar. To turn that feature off and return to the original behavior, delete the key:

defaults delete com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle

For more information about using the defaults utility, see its man page. Once you delete the entry, it’s best to log out of your user from the Apple menu and then log back in to be sure the preference stuck.

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