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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 folde
by nicky0 10y 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 10y agoExactly. It's hard to believe how much time that saves. Also, you can drag the little file icon from an application title bar.
- MarHoff 10y agoAnd 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 10y agoMy 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 10y agoJust tried it on Linux, and… all these features work pretty much exactly the same way.