diff --git a/macos/Sources/Helpers/NSPasteboard+Extension.swift b/macos/Sources/Helpers/NSPasteboard+Extension.swift
index 0b71b56857..94b81f9d36 100644
--- a/macos/Sources/Helpers/NSPasteboard+Extension.swift
+++ b/macos/Sources/Helpers/NSPasteboard+Extension.swift
@@ -9,14 +9,14 @@ extension NSPasteboard {
 
     /// Gets the contents of the pasteboard as a string following a specific set of semantics.
     /// Does these things in order:
-    /// - Tries to get the absolute filesystem path of the file in the pasteboard if there is one.
+    /// - Tries to get the absolute filesystem path of the file in the pasteboard if there is one and esures file path is properly escaped.
     /// - Tries to get any string from the pasteboard.
     /// If all of the above fail, returns None.
     func getOpinionatedStringContents() -> String? {
         if let urls = readObjects(forClasses: [NSURL.self]) as? [URL],
            urls.count > 0 {
             return urls
-                .map { $0.isFileURL ? $0.path : $0.absoluteString }
+                .map { $0.isFileURL ? Ghostty.Shell.escape($0.path) : $0.absoluteString }
                 .joined(separator: " ")
         }