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Authored by: Jon on Jan 15, '02 11:41:24AM

Grabbing the icon in the titlebar is just another way of grabbing the file - as when you grab it in the Finder. And it works the same way.
Thus dragging the icon means usually moving the file. But If you drag a file to the desktop in OS X – whether in Finder or from the window titlebar – it creates an alias instead.
Following this, you can also use modifier keys in the same way as in Finder, i.e option-drag to make a copy and option-command-drag to make an alias.
As "bhines" write, this has been the case since icons in the titlebar was introduced with mac OS 8.5.



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It's simple
Authored by: osxpounder on Feb 05, '02 05:50:08PM

When I drag any icon from a Finder window to the desktop, that item is MOVED--not aliased--to the desktop. This includes the 'proxy icon' in the window's top border.



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