solrac
Mac Ninja
Picture this:
you have a JPG picture stored somewhere deep in your hard drive, 20 folders deep. You open a finder window and navigate to it. You try to drag it to Program X.
Now you realize Program X can only access it with File.. Open.. (hey, this happens a lot. Even with cmd-opt-drag to dock. Or maybe you just have to upload it in Explorer through an HTML page such as a hotmail attachment.)
So you just wasted all that time navigating 20 folders deep in the Finder only to have to do it ALL OVER AGAIN in the File.. Open.. window.
This is the story of my life on Macs.
Even with a favorites folder... there's no doubt about it. Annoying as HELL. No matter what.
Now, though... with OS X.. I just tried this out of sheer frustration...
I DRAGGED my file which I navigated to in the Finder INTO the File.. Open.. window, and that window changed to the new location in the Finder. Automatic navigation!!! One of the greatest little tricks I've ever found in X.
-solrac-
p.s. If you could do this all along in OS 9 then I will sure feel stupid.
you have a JPG picture stored somewhere deep in your hard drive, 20 folders deep. You open a finder window and navigate to it. You try to drag it to Program X.
Now you realize Program X can only access it with File.. Open.. (hey, this happens a lot. Even with cmd-opt-drag to dock. Or maybe you just have to upload it in Explorer through an HTML page such as a hotmail attachment.)
So you just wasted all that time navigating 20 folders deep in the Finder only to have to do it ALL OVER AGAIN in the File.. Open.. window.
This is the story of my life on Macs.
Even with a favorites folder... there's no doubt about it. Annoying as HELL. No matter what.
Now, though... with OS X.. I just tried this out of sheer frustration...
I DRAGGED my file which I navigated to in the Finder INTO the File.. Open.. window, and that window changed to the new location in the Finder. Automatic navigation!!! One of the greatest little tricks I've ever found in X.
-solrac-
p.s. If you could do this all along in OS 9 then I will sure feel stupid.