If the macOS interface is good at anything, it’s undoubtedly in the ability to power drag files and other content from one app to another without any issues involved. This makes using the system very intuitive: you drag a photo to the Mail icon and it’s attached to a new message. You drag a selected paragraph from a website to the desktop and you already have a saved text snippet. Quick and easy.
The possibilities are so vast that there may be ways to drag and drop content that you didn’t even know existed in macOS. And that’s what happened to me recently after discovering that we can drag a file from the title bar of your program.
You don’t need the Finder to drag a file from one place to another
The best way to explain it is through an animated GIF:
Instead of dragging the file from its folder in the Finder, if you have it open, just drag it from the title bar to where you want it. If you drag it into an app (like Mail to attach to an email), a saved copy of the file will be attached. If you drag it to a location in the Finder, you will move the file from its original location to this new location Where are you dragging it?
The grace of this method is that it saves us from having to find the file in the Finder to be able to assign it a new location or do something with it, which it can save us a lot of time to open files and research. I’ve been using Apple computers since 2006 and now I realize this, who was going to tell me.
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