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Drag & Drop

URL Manager Pro makes extensive use of Drag & Drop, both within the program and also for interactions between URL Manager Pro and your Internet applications and the Finder. We differentiate Drag & Drop of Bookmarks, Hypertext Links and Files.

Bookmarks
Obvious Drag & Drop operations within URL Manager Pro include:

Note: Dragging & Dropping a Bookmark between windows always makes a copy of the Bookmark.

Tip: To create a duplicate of a Bookmark within a window use Option-Drag. Obvious Drag & Drop operations between URL Manager Pro and an external program include:

As can be seen from the above examples, Drag & Drop behaves slightly differently depending on the context.

When you Drag & Drop an object inside a given area of URL Manager Pro, such as the Bookmark file window, the action moves the object.

When you Drag & Drop an object between separate components of URL Manager Pro or between URL Manager Pro and an external program, such as a Web browser, the action only copies the object. A copy of the object remains in its original location.

Note: Technically speaking, when you Drag & Drop a Bookmark from URL Manager Pro onto an external program icon or a program window, you are in fact just passing the information contained in a Bookmark temporarily to the program. A copy of the Bookmark does not appear or remain in the program.

Additional uses

In addition to the obvious uses of Drag & Drop, there are some less than obvious ones.

Tip: To send Bulk Mail, Drag & Drop a folder of email address Bookmarks to the email icon in the Helper Dock. The email addresses will be inserted in the Bcc: field. The complete list of names and addresses will not be displayed in the recipients' message headers. The To: field is set to your personal email address. Your personal email address must be set via Internet Config or the Internet Control Panel.

Tip: To send Bulk Mail in Claris Emailer, Drag & Drop a folder of email address Bookmarks to the Bcc: field of a new message. The email addresses will be inserted in this field. The complete list of names and addresses will not be displayed in the recipients' message headers.

Note: When you Drag & Drop a folder of email address bookmarks, it must be closed and all non-email address Bookmarks will be ignored.

Text
When you Drag & Drop a text selection from a word processor or the Notepad to a Bookmark file, URL Manager Pro will scan the dropped text for URLs and create bookmarks for them.

Hypertext links
You can Drag & Drop hypertext links that appear in a Web browser window to a Bookmark file. URL Manager creates a bookmark using the name and URL of the hypertext link. You determine by Drag & Drop where the new bookmark will be placed in the hierarchy. You can also Drag & Drop hypertext links to the URL Manager Pro icon in the Helper Dock. In this case, the bookmark is put in the Drop Basket.

Note: In Cyberdog, please use Option-Drag when using Drag & Drop of hypertext links.

Files
You can Drag & Drop TEXT files, HTML files, URL Files, Internet Location Files (Mac OS 8.5 or higher), AOL Favorites, Anarchie or Interarchy Bookmarks, and Fetch Bookmarks to a URL Manager Pro Bookmark window. URL Manager Pro will then import all URLs and bookmarks that are in these files and put them in a new Bookmark folder.

You can also Drag & Drop these files to the URL Manager Pro icon in the Helper Dock. URL Manager Pro will create a new Bookmark file and then import all URLs and bookmarks from the dropped file.

Note: To import AOL Favorites, first drag an AOL Favorite to the Finder Desktop. Then drag this new file to your Bookmark window.

Tip: Some file icons you can Drag & Drop to a Bookmark window are shown below.


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