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And this works everywhere
Authored by: VRic on Aug 03, '05 05:36:30AM

It's called the Proxy Icon and it allows you any drag/drop that you would apply to the original (it actually "is" the original).

For example, in any program that shows a document window, if the proxy icon is not greyed out (which would mean changes weren't saved yet), you can drag it to a location in the Finder to move or copy the file, to another app or window that may process it, etc.

For those interested, that feature is actually a subset of an old System 7 shareware (I forgot its name), that was gradually copied by the OS. The original idea was even more ambitious, as I think it first appeared in DropSave at MacHack '91 as a way to bypass navigation dialogs and save directly where you drag.



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