My new Distraction

[djrikki]

I don't really agree with the restrictiveness of Mac OS X at all, it seems they have thought of everything to make my life easier.  Take today for instance, I use a Mac at work all day, in fact its mine, I use Macs everywhere, when I do have to use Windows, I use it through Remote Desktop Connection... see its Windows.. but its not Windows its virtual Windows.

So I digress, take today, I needed to upload a pdf from an email attachment straight to an ftp server.

Now if I was trying this on Windows I would no doubt have to save the attachment firstly locally, open an Explorer window, navigate to that file and then drag and drop it across into the ftp client.  Wait for it to finish, and delete the local file of my HD.

Whereas in Mac OS X... hmm how do I get that from there to there.. oh I know I'll just drag it from there (Apple Mail) to there (Cyberduck - ftp client) and what'd ya know it just did it.

[djrikki]

I can do that with Win 7 and XP, without a special FTP client. Just drag it from email over to Windows Explorer which is logged onto the FTP site. Never used Vista mtself.

Ah cool... I try to use Windows as little as possible... I guess MS have caught up a little bit in the drag and drop department. :lol:

I know that can't be done with Finder in Mac OS X.  When you use the 'Connect to server' option from the 'Go' menu to mount an FTP site...it mounts Read-only which makes it pretty useless. :laughing: