Jan 18
Did you know that you can click and drag the little folder icon in a Finder window’s title bar to copy/move the folder to another location?
A secondary click on the title or the folder icon brings up a context menu listing the parent folders of the currently selected folder.
January 18th, 2008 at 5:52 am
cool trick, thanks
January 18th, 2008 at 10:03 am
Also know as the “proxy icon”
January 18th, 2008 at 10:43 am
You can also do things with the proxy icon in documents. You can drag it to drop on another app as a reference to that document, like drop on Mail to open a new message with that as an attachment. If you drag the icon to another folder, you seem to get an alias by default, but can use command or option to get a copy. It doesn’t let you move the file it seems, which would probably have bad effects on the application you are using. You can also do the right-click (or command+click works too) to get the containing folders as in the Finder.
January 18th, 2008 at 10:45 am
Another related tip is if you have a Finder window open in the folder you are working in, and you have an open or save dialog that isn’t currently over in that folder, just drag the folder proxy icon onto the open or save dialog, and it will go there. These work in 10.4 as well.
January 18th, 2008 at 11:49 am
This did not work for me. I’m running Leopard, but trying this trick actually increased my PDF filesize from 68K to 292K…