[Big Mac]

Have you ever been frustrated by the fact that your Drag-n-Drop destination is obscured because its window is in the background while your source always comes to the foreground when you try to initiate the drag? Then try this, click to bring the destination window to the foreground, then hold Command (a.k.a. Apple/Clover key) when you click on the source window, and you'll notice that it remains in the background. Perform your Drag-n-Drop effortlessly! Remarkably, after all this time I just found that you can do anything you want in the window while holding the Command key, and it will function normally while staying in the background.

EDIT: Sorry, I accidentally hit the return key before my post was complete, gorickey, et al.

[gorickey]

?

[curmi]

Don't forget Exposé too. Go to the window you are dragging from, drag the object out, Press F9 (or whatever you have it set to), hover over the window you want, wait or press F9 again to bring that window to the front, and then drop.

[Anubis IV]

Yeah, I use the Exposé method as well. Really, the thing I use the command key for when moving files is when I want to move a file from my internal HDD to an external HDD (or vice versa) and not leave a copy of the file at the original location. Saves me the extra step of trashing the original.

[Spheric Harlot]

Originally posted by curmi:
Don't forget Exposé too. Go to the window you are dragging from, drag the object out, Press F9 (or whatever you have it set to), hover over the window you want, wait or press F9 again to bring that window to the front, and then drop.

I usually just drag into the Exposé corner, but otherwise, yep.


And the Command-drag thing is a great tip. (Incidentally, it's worked that way since at least System 8, IIRC.)

-s*

[voodoo]

Thanks for the tip Big Mac!

[Big Mac]

Glad people find the tip useful. I posted it since I assume many of us have overlooked this feature, and it's a great timesaver. I cannot believe I didn't use it until now; I can recall many a time it would have saved me a minute or more. I guess the reason why I didn't use it is because I mistakenly believed it only worked in the Finder. My tip is really important for those occasions when the windows are near one another but are always overlapping. If your window is further away or buried deep down, it makes more sense to use curmi's Expose procedure. I know I don't use Expose as effectively I should, so it's important to improve my efficiency with it.