I don’t want to give you the impression that I get all my blogging ideas from Jason Snell, but here’s the second one this week. It was inspired by his post this morning about using the new folder automation feature in macOS 26. After bookmarking the article so I can refer to it after upgrading to 26, I started thinking about how he and Dan Moren went about extracting the name of a file’s enclosing folder from its full path name.