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I ran into this recently, when I needed to save a URL as a text clipping, not as a webloc file. (The situation is too bizarre to get into here, but suffice it to say it involved two user accounts on the same machine that needed to share data, and Lotus Notes.)

I knew that dragging the favicon from the URL bar to the Desktop results in a webloc. This is helpful, and expected. The favicon is the URL proxy, and should act like the object it represents. To get a *text* clipping, I figured I'd drag the *text* instead of the favicon. This should result in a text clipping, right? Nope. The Finder recognizes the http: prefix, and 'helpfully' converts it to a webloc file for you. Not what I wanted, or expected.

Mildly annoyed, I decided to break its helpfulness by prepending a space. Voila. Drag the resulting text from the URL box in Safari, and you get a text clipping you can drop anywhere.
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Save Safari URLs as text clippings not weblocs
Authored by: adrianm on Jul 19, '07 10:42:50AM

I'm quite keen to know why the webloc isn't any good....

I find I can drag that webloc to, eg, TextEdit, Terminal, a text box in a webpage, etc, and it arrives just as text.

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Save Safari URLs as text clippings not weblocs
Authored by: Kickaha on Jul 19, '07 07:07:46PM

Yup, Lotus Notes doesn't consistently know what to do with a webloc, but it does okay with textClippings. Hence the need.



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Save Safari URLs as text clippings not weblocs
Authored by: MrLucky on Jul 19, '07 11:20:23AM

Right- or ctrl-click the link and select "Copy Link" to copy the text to the clipboard.



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Save Safari URLs as text clippings not weblocs
Authored by: Kickaha on Jul 19, '07 07:03:31PM

Doesn't work when copying from one user account, and pasting in the other. You have to use a file of some sort. I could open a TextEdit file, paste in the text, save it to Public, open it in the other account, copy it again, and paste it... or I could just skip the copy/paste steps and drag to the Public folder, switch accounts, drag to proper app.



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Save Safari URLs as text clippings not weblocs
Authored by: jeremyp on Jul 19, '07 11:44:53PM

Or command-C to copy



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Save Safari URLs as text clippings not weblocs
Authored by: neuralstatic on Jul 19, '07 04:49:15PM

i cant figure out why apple has largely abandoned text clipping. it's a great feature to have for some things, but fewer and fewer apps have it lately.



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