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Authored by: mm2270 on Jan 26, '04 04:56:52PM

As has been pointed out, it's basically the same functionality as what was in earlier releases of OS X. In fact, I submitted a hint similar to this when Panther first hit the streets, though with not as many optional ways to do it.

I agree with others that it's not quite as useful as earlier implementations though because of the lack of "spring-loadedness" In fact, you can't even simply drag something on to them, whether the alias is a folder or app icon. It just doesn't recognize drag-and-drop, so it's only good for locations that you need to view quickly, rather than anything you need to place files into.



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Nothing too new
Authored by: adrianm on Jan 26, '04 06:08:46PM

You _can_ drag things to items on the toolbar. eg. drag textedit to the toolbar then drag a rtf or text file onto it. Whether you can drop things on it depends on whether the target can accept it.



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Also try...
Authored by: mccabem on Mar 04, '04 04:09:35AM

Also try holding down command+option while you drag and drop, so it an alias. This is a more general trick to get applications to "accept" documents from Finder that they ordinarily wouldn't.



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