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10.5: Drag and drop text between Macs via screen sharing
Authored by: osxpounder on Jan 09, '08 02:51:08PM
For those who might read this, but do not use Leopard yet:

You can almost do this if you use "teleport", an app made to allow you to share one keyboard & mouse among multiple Macs.

You can drag files, but not text.

It offers the option to synchronize clipboards, with additional options to limit sync to only clipboard contents that are smaller than a size you specify... or to only sync clipboard contents when you hold down a modifier key. I haven't tried these extra options.

I have used teleport for a few weeks now, though, and I let it sync the clipboard [this program calls it the "pasteboard"]. I also installed Butler, so that it can keep a clipboard history. That way, if I really didn't want the clipboard on Mac #2 overwritten, I can go to Butler and retrieve the previous clipboard contents. I normally only care about text, when I look in Butler's clipboard [Butler also calls it a "pasteboard"], and I've noticed Butler doesn't always manage to retain an image I copied, but I haven't noticed why, nor cared. So far, so good.

http://abyssoft.com/software/teleport/


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