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>like dragging files into file/open dialogs You mentioned this twice, and now I'm intrigued. What exactly do you mean by this?

nicky0 9y ago
Drag a file/folder into an Open dialog and the dialog will switch to that location. Similarly drag a folder into a Save dialog and it will switch to that folder. Drag a file onto the "Open..." button on a web page to skip the open dialog entirely. Drag a file into Terminal to paste that full path into the terminal...
- jwr 9y ago
  Exactly. It's hard to believe how much time that saves. Also, you can drag the little file icon from an application title bar.
  - MarHoff 9y ago
    And for recent apps consistently rename the file in place from that same title bar. And the far decried HFS+ file system had a feature I hope they will maintain in APFS. When you moved or renamed a file around, most of the time even third party app managed to figure out the new location of the file when seeking for it instead of just displaying a broken path dialog. And this replacement only occurred if the resource was not present at the search path. Meaning that moving and replacing by a similarly named file result in similar file being used, while moving result in suggesting new location. Don't know what's the behavior is as of today, and maybe by now Linux also provide this reliably, but first time I've seen this was even pre OSX I believe. And maybe there is a simple trick, but it looked like black magic for the 20 years me.
    - tambourine_man 9y ago
      My guess is a Carbon API which uses inodes instead of absolute path. That was the case (and created a huge debate) back in the old Carbon vs Cocoa days Infamous tech note 2034: https://mjtsai.com/blog/2014/10/08/the-source-of-technote-2034/ https://mjtsai.com/blog/2014/10/08/the-source-of-technote-20...
- helb 9y ago
  Just tried it on Linux, and… all these features work pretty much exactly the same way.
cormacrelf 9y ago
I'll mix it in with my other favourite feature so it's more fun. Say you can't be bothered navigating to find & open a file in App B you already have open in some other app (A). Get to the Open dialog, activate App A, click-hold on the little file icon next to the file name on the top bar of App A and drag it onto the Open dialog over at B. Suddenly, the dialog has the appropriate file selected, wherever it happens to reside on your file system. Magic! Edit: literally everyone beat me to it.

nicky0 9y ago

Drag a file/folder into an Open dialog and the dialog will switch to that location. Similarly drag a folder into a Save dialog and it will switch to that folder. Drag a file onto the "Open..." button on a web page to skip the open dialog entirely. Drag a file into Terminal to paste that full path into the terminal...

jwr 9y ago
Exactly. It's hard to believe how much time that saves. Also, you can drag the little file icon from an application title bar.
- MarHoff 9y ago
  And for recent apps consistently rename the file in place from that same title bar. And the far decried HFS+ file system had a feature I hope they will maintain in APFS. When you moved or renamed a file around, most of the time even third party app managed to figure out the new location of the file when seeking for it instead of just displaying a broken path dialog. And this replacement only occurred if the resource was not present at the search path. Meaning that moving and replacing by a similarly named file result in similar file being used, while moving result in suggesting new location. Don't know what's the behavior is as of today, and maybe by now Linux also provide this reliably, but first time I've seen this was even pre OSX I believe. And maybe there is a simple trick, but it looked like black magic for the 20 years me.
  - tambourine_man 9y ago
    My guess is a Carbon API which uses inodes instead of absolute path. That was the case (and created a huge debate) back in the old Carbon vs Cocoa days Infamous tech note 2034: https://mjtsai.com/blog/2014/10/08/the-source-of-technote-2034/ https://mjtsai.com/blog/2014/10/08/the-source-of-technote-20...
helb 9y ago
Just tried it on Linux, and… all these features work pretty much exactly the same way.

cormacrelf 9y ago

I'll mix it in with my other favourite feature so it's more fun. Say you can't be bothered navigating to find & open a file in App B you already have open in some other app (A). Get to the Open dialog, activate App A, click-hold on the little file icon next to the file name on the top bar of App A and drag it onto the Open dialog over at B. Suddenly, the dialog has the appropriate file selected, wherever it happens to reside on your file system. Magic! Edit: literally everyone beat me to it.