By default, the Finder shows the name of the current folder in its window’s title. This is OK in most cases. But what if you happend to have folders with identical names on your Mac, only they’re sitting in different parent folders? If you can only see the name of the folder in the Finder’s title bar, you’ll have to 
click it to see which folder you’re currently in.
A better way is to make the Finder display the full path of the folder it is currently showing. Here’s how to do it:
- Launch Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal.app
- Enter the following text:
defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES
and hit Enter. - Enter
killall Finderand hit Enter.
The Finder will relaunch and now display the full path to the current folder in its title bar. If you want to turn this off again, simply replace YES with NO in the above command.
via http://tippsblog.ch/2008/12/06/pfad-im-finder-unter-mac-os-x-im-titel-anzeigen/
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Thanks for a great tip!
I still have a difficult, though: how can I get a version of the full path of a folder, so that I can copy and paste it?
Antonio