When clicked, they’ll either take you to a web address immediately or, for certain types of files, give you the option to open a document with an app (like Adobe Reader to open a PDF). They can connect with almost any resource on the web. Hyperlinks are clickable words or images that navigate to other web content.

Or, maybe you need to add a link to an Instagram Story or YouTube video. Or perhaps you need a quick reminder on how to make a clickable link in HTML. Maybe you want to link to authoritative content from your new blog. This is driving me crazy because it looks like it should work but it simply doesn't.Here you are, scratching your head and trying to figure out how to make a hyperlink. Since, at least in the terminal, the path to file:///Users/username equals to ~, I made my script generate links like file:///~/Google Drive/pathToFolder, but they do not work :( Clicking on such a link will open the finder, but won't select the right file or folder So if user's name is Foo the path will be file:///Users/Foo/Google Drive, while for user Bar the path will be file:///Users/Bar/Google DriveĬlearly the path generated from user Foo won't work for user Bar The reason I can't use the exact same script is that Google Drive folder is in the user home folder. Now, in my previous company, we used a central afp server, so the path was common to everyone, therefore I had created an applescript script that could get the absolute afp path to the file, people pasted that path in a mail or chat and the end user could click on that path which automatically became a link and the finder would open, selecting that particular file or folder that the link led to. Paths are long as we use a lot of nested folders, so it's pretty boring and time consuming to browse through all that. In my company, we use Google Drive and often have to tell each other the path to a particular file.

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