10.5: Drag and drop text between Macs via screen sharing

Jan 09, '08 07:30:05AM

Contributed by: mark hunte

While connected to one Mac from another on my local network via screen sharing in the Finder (not iChat), I tried to use the Edit » Send Clipboard menu item to copy and paste the text from a local Script Editor document into a Script Editor document on the remote Mac. For some reason this did not work -- the text would not arrive in the remote clipboard (still have to figure what is wrong there). So I tried the the next best thing, not really expecting it to work.

I selected all the text in the Script Editor document on the local Mac, and dragged and dropped it over and into the Script Editor document on Remote Mac ... and it worked! (Dragging text also worked from the remote Mac to the local Mac.) So I quickly tested other dragging operations.

It seems most text from various applications will drag over in one form or another to a text area on the other Mac. And does not have to be to or from the same app on local and remote. A couple more quick examples:

Have fun!

[robg adds: You can't drag and drop a file, but this is very useful for text.]

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