Add an up button to the Finder?

Is it possible to add a button to the Finder that goes up a directory? I looked at the buttons available under customize and didn't see one, but thought there might be a hack out there.

Solution 1:

Would you be willing to just use a keyboard shortcut instead?

⌘ Command↑ Up

Voilà.

Solution 2:

Choose View > Show Path Bar to show the Path bar at the bottom of Finder windows.

Then, to go up one level, just double-click on the second-to-last item in the hierarchy. For example, I'd double-click on mdouma46 in the image below to go up one level.

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Solution 3:

Another option would be to save a script like this as an application in AppleScript Editor and drag it to the toolbar.

try
    tell app "Finder" to tell window 1 to set target to container of target
end try

Solution 4:

I found this app that does what I was looking for. Once extracting it to your Applications folder or wherever you want to keep it, drag it to the Finder next to the Back/Forward buttons. It's a little bit smaller than them in Lion, but the styling fits.

Click here to download

Credit to Simon Slangen for creating the app

Image of up button

Solution 5:

When you Command-Click on the folder icon on an item in the title bar of a Finder window, you get a contextual menu showing the folder hierarchy to the root of the drive. You can then use the mouse to select a higher level of the hierarchy and move there in the Finder window. It's convenient and appealing because you see the whole hierarchy.

before command-click

after command-click