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Was it to save attachments though? I remember the ability to add attachments to an email but I think you misunderstood the title. I thought the same thing as y
by Timothee 16y ago
Was it to save attachments though? I remember the ability to add attachments to an email but I think you misunderstood the title.
I thought the same thing as you did (I upvoted you even), but the article talks about the other way around: saving attachments to your desktop by drag-and-drop. The post says the file is added to the download queue but is just saved wherever you designated instead of the Downloads folder.
- thought_alarm 16y agoYou're right, I didn't catch that. It strikes me as a very impossible-to-discover feature.
- spoondan 16y agoDragging and dropping files is an interaction that people already know. Nobody needs to "discover" it, they just need to assume it works.
- thought_alarm 16y agoThat's precisely the problem. People routinely drag links and images from a browser window to their desktop; it's a feature as old as Netscape Navigator. I would never expect or assume that the image or link I'm dragging to the desktop would act as a proxy to an entirely different document.