Looking for a way to copy a file path with a keyboard shortcut. For example, I would like to hit ctrlshiftc and have the selected file or folder's full path copy to the clipboard.
I am aware that I can right click, hold shift and select copy path, but I find myself doing this often, so I would like a faster way.
On Windows 10, you can use the Quick Access Toolbar on Windows Explorer.
Select the file in question, and in the Home tab in the Ribbon find "Copy Path". Right click and then select "Add to Quick Access Toolbar".
Now you can use the Alt shortcuts built into the Quick Access Toolbar to copy path with one key command. Pressing the alt button will show the number associated with the command. By default it will probably be Alt + 3.
In Explorer, you can use a keyboard shortcut "chord" to copy it to the clipboard:
Shift+≣ Menu, a
You many also want to check out the various answers provided in this older SU question for some ideas:
It might not be a keyboard shortcut, but you can show the full path in the folder window. Just enable it in the Folder Options.
Then you can simply click at the top where the folder location is displayed and it will allow you to select it and then CtrlC to copy it to the clipboard.
Maybe that will help.
Because this answers the question in the expected way, and because I have worked with a handful of even fairly recent laptops that do not have the context menu key, I provide the following suggestion for anyone who happens across this post:
Within the File Explorer menu, press Alt (you do not have to hold it from this point forward) and then H, followed by C and then P which will select the Copy as Path item from the Home ribbon (see image via link below).
The Home ribbon selected, with 'CP' overlaid on the 'Copy as Path' button:
