Of course this is also infinitely useful for troubleshooting and tracking down the origins of mystery files on your Mac or someone elses. Try it out yourself by exploring your Downloads folder with the Get Info command. I use this trick all the time for re-discovering music remixes from the huge network of new music blogs, but it works well for literally anything downloaded. This is a really handy trick if you can’t recall where you downloaded certain files from, it’s made even better by the fact that you can select the URL’s from the window and visit them again or share easily too. In the example screenshot below, the file was linked to from a URL (a music site) but the file itself was stored on Amazon’s S3 service, so both links are listed. You may notice two URL’s listed as the ‘where from’ source, this is because the file was linked by one URL and downloaded from another. You can actually copy that URL to re-download the file if you want, or to send someone else a direct download link of the exact same item. From the Get Info window, click on ‘More Info’ to see where you downloaded the file under “Where from:”įor example, here’s a dmg file downloaded from, and the exact URL of where it was downloaded is shown:.Now go to Get Info on the file (File menu, choose “Get Info” or hit Command+i).Select the file in question within the Finder of the Mac OS X.This will literally give you the exact download URL of the file itself, and if that URL was linked to from somewhere else, it will tell you that URL as well. You can quickly find out where any file was downloaded from by using the Mac Finder ‘Get Info’ command.
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How to Find Where a Downloaded Files Origin URL Was in Mac OS X
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