Nothing is moved or copied, but the dialog box can now proceed with it’s intended purpose, focused on a new target, without any need to navigate through the folder structure first.

So rather than displaying the folder or file it was pointed at when it was opened, it will instead point to the folder or file that was dropped on it. Instead, it will cause the dialog box to change its focus. Dragging a file or folder around in the Mac Finder will move or copy it in exactly the same way as on a Windows system, but dragging a file or folder into an open application dialog box won’t copy or move anything. MacOS handles that kind of action somewhat differently. Whether you are looking at a folder in the Windows Explorer, or looking at a folder in a file save dialog box from within an application, if you drag a file in or out of that window/dialog box to another, it will move or copy that file to the new location. On Windows, there is an understandable UI paradigm that ‘anything that looks like a file window, acts like a file window.’ This is a reasonable way to design an approachable interface. Even long-time users are often surprised by these. But, does the Mac provide anything for designers today that they can’t find on a cheaper, Windows-based, computer? We’re going to have a look at a couple of very small, but quite significant features in macOS that can offer a significant productivity boost, depending on the type of design work you are doing. This made it viable as a design tool earlier than Windows. This is mostly due to the Mac originating a graphical user interface for personal computers. The Mac has historically been viewed as the computer that designers always prefer.

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