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Command-drag from dock to move original apps Desktop
If you command-drag an application out of the dock, you're actually dragging the application file itself. This is great for downloaded programs: If you like it, just command-drag the program from the dock to the programs folder, and it's installed.

[robg adds: I don't believe we've covered this before -- we did discuss command-clicking dock icons, but not command-dragging them. With this trick, you can actually move running applications (as you could do in the Finder, of course) when you do this. Nothing will break if you move it while you're running the app, of course. But the next time you go to launch that app, you might be surprised to find its no longer in its folder -- and at that point, the app itself may complain about missing files.]
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Command-drag from dock to move original apps
Authored by: bakalite on Oct 28, '04 11:40:00AM

Interesting trash behavior. You can't drag the item to the trash in this fashion, nor can you move an item out of the trash.



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Command-drag from dock to move original apps
Authored by: mrchucho on Oct 30, '04 12:49:49PM

Yes, but be aware that there's nothing to stop you from command-dragging a non-running app into the trash and then emptying the trash...

This is bad if you say, drag "System Preferences" to the trash and delete it...



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Command-drag from dock to move original apps
Authored by: PCheese on Oct 31, '04 06:18:44PM
Command-dragging works with documents as well.
Yes, but be aware that there's nothing to stop you from command-dragging a non-running app into the trash and then emptying the trash...
You can't drag anything into the trash from the Dock, not even non-running apps. Unless you mean from the Finder, but it's really the user's fault in that case, and command dragging into the trash doesn't make it different from normal dragging into the trash.

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