Drag icon: If you drag the proxy icon to a Finder window or your Desktop, an alias to the open file will be created at the location where you drop the icon.Here's what happens in most applications, including TextEdit and Preview: However, if you click-and-hold directly on the proxy icon, and optionally add a modifier key, you can access other useful functions. Normally, when you click-and-drag on the title bar of a window, you just drag the window around.
You can perform many useful tasks using the icon in the title bar of many OS X applications (known as the proxy icon), in both Apple-bundled (TextEdit, Preview, etc.) and third party (BBEdit, Path Finder, and numerous others) applications.įor this to work, you need to be using a file that has had its latest changes saved (otherwise, the icon will be grayed out).
