Create aliases from within an application

Jan 14, '02 11:37:04PM

Contributed by: Anonymous

I don't know if it's old news but I haven't seen this tip before.

When draging the tiny preview icon in the name section of a document's window to the desktop or a folder, an alias of the file is created! It only seems to work in Cocoa apps (Preview and TextEdit for example). Press 'option' at the same time makes a copy of the file...

[Editor's note: See the comments and never mind this note :-)]

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