Email link to folder on shared volume

There's probably a really easy answer to this one but I just can't find it... so please be a hero and help me out!
I need to email a link to a folder on a shared volume to a colleague, showing him where I've put a particular file. How do I do this easily?
(1) Why can't I just select the folder, press Cmd-I, copy the Where or Server info, Cmd-V into an email and press Send?
(2) I also know about the trick to drop the folder on the Terminal window and copy the result, but it looks nasty if you have spaces in the path.
Ideally I would just love to drop the folder on the email and be done with it (but that of course copies the whole folder). There must be an easy way to do this...

Yeah, I could manually type the whole long path into the e-mail but hey! - I thought we used computers to make things easier...
A quick Grab (usually from inside Preview) to create an image is a good suggestion but a bit cumbersome.
Oh Apple - why didn't you make the text in the Info pane selectable and copyable?

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>>No matter what I try, when I add a SCSI Adapter and one VHDX virtual disk to a VM, the option for "Advanced" never shows up therefore I can not share the VHDX file between another VM
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I would add an additional error that they and perhaps you as their advisor are guilty of. Never rely on a single level of backup, ideally you should have a rotating set of backups i.e. one for each day - Monday, Tuesday, etc. and even more importantly should store these off-site unless being used so that in the even of a fire, flood or other disaster you still have intact backups.
In theory ACL permissions can be set to allow reading, allow writing but disallow deleting. Unfortunately in the real world trying to use the disallow deleting option is a waste of time. This is because many programs 'save' changes by saving a new temporary file, deleting the original file, and renaming the temporary file to the original name. This will not work if you block deleting.

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Frustrations with file permissions abound, as certain co workers are unable to manually determine their level of permission or who to ask to make changes to files and folders belonging to others. Users of Snow Leopard desktop OS get unhelpful feedback via Finder's Get Info, seeing only the permissions listed for "Everyone" and a statement that "You have custom access". The custom message exists, presumably, because ACL's are employed on the shared volume in an attempt to give managerial control over these volumes to specific users, even if all users can create files and folders on those volumes.
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I know that ACL's are functioning (enabled on the drive) since we have been making use of ACL-granted write privileges for quite a while (and the custom access seems to be evidence too).
An error I encountered, pertaining to this, is that I used a 10.6 machine to create a working folder, then generated and saved several files in this location. Expected permissions thus would be Owner = me (i.e. the user I was logged in as), R/W, Group = staff, R only, Everyone = R only. However, immediately the permissions shown in Finder / Get Info consisted only of Everyone = R only, with no entry for Owner or Group. Moreover, clicking + to add either an Owner or a Group resulted in error message that I had entered an invalid user or group, even though I typed in correct info (such as trying to add "staff" as a group).

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