OS X Hack: Tell the Finder to Display Paths as Window Titles

Windows in the OS X Finder–the equivalent, more or less, of Windows Explorer–normally display the title of the current folder. You can fire up a Terminal and type the following two lines to change this default:

defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES
killall Finder 

If you change your mind later, you can change it back later with this:

defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool NO
killall Finder
There are lots of hidden customization strings of this sort in OS X. Google "defaults write com.apple.finder" for more. 

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