Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!unido!fauern!ira.uka.de!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!lll-winken!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!njin!princeton!set!bskendig From: bskendig@set.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Last minute Finder 7 requests Message-ID: <6777@idunno.Princeton.EDU> Date: 2 Mar 91 03:56:22 GMT References: <1991Mar1.212808.20312@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Sender: news@idunno.Princeton.EDU Organization: Starfleet Academy: Princeton University Lines: 34 In article francis@uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) writes: >In article <1991Mar1.212808.20312@fcom.cc.utah.edu> t-jacobs@ced.utah.edu writes: >>#2 - Option-shift-drag to copy an alias of the selected file to the location >>dragged to. I find I am constantly creating an alias, dragging a copy to the >>location I want, and then deleting the origional. > >Naive question time: can't you create the alias and just drag it? Yes, but nine out of ten times I find myself doing the following: - Select the file and hit "Make Alias". - Drag the alias to a new location. - Click on the alias name, wait for my SE to acknowledge the click, and remove the word "alias". Now, this process would be made much more effortless (?) if I could just: - Hold down shift-option and drag the file to a new location to alias it. In fact, I can't think of any cases where you'd actually want there to be an alias of a file in the same exact folder as the original file; in this regard, the effect of "Make Alias" is a bit less useful than the effect of "Duplicate File", even though "Duplicate File" lets you achieve the same thing by option-dragging while there's no shortcut for "Make Alias". Just an ounce of user-friendliness... ;) << Brian >> | Brian S. Kendig \ Macintosh | Engineering, | bskendig | | Computer Engineering |\ Thought | USS Enterprise | @phoenix.Princeton.EDU | Princeton University |_\ Police | -= NCC-1701-D =- | @PUCC.BITNET | "It's not that I don't have the work to *do* -- I don't do the work I *have*."