I have two Macbook Pros in my office. I would like to send a link to a file (specifying its path) to another user, using that other MacBook Pro. We have a commonly mounted network drive. So I would just like to send the link to the file I'm asking her to reference. I can see that the 'add link' feature lets people attach URLs. But what about these semi-private files on the local network?
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In most cases you can drag a file into a terminal window to get the full path and that would be something you could paste into an iMessage window.
If you want it to be a true link to the file, prepend the path with file://
- file:///Volumes/NAS/path/to/file
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Does about 90% of what I hoped it would. When I have the full path to the file (e.g. a .doc), iMessage will only invoke the Finder to display the folder that holds the file. iMessage isn't smart enough to get MS Word application started and actually show the file.– RolnikOct 26, 2012 at 17:46