Why can't Mac users, who have multiple devices, have device icons for drag and drop, on desktop rather than iCloud, iTunes, etc. ?

I want drag and drop in the form of icons on my iMac, from all my other Apple devices. I don't want to have to go through iCloud, iTunes and DropBox.

What are you other apple devices?
For an all Mac OS X set, you could write an applescript to perform the task.
Robert

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Also my Iphoto 11, despite stating it is the latest version, does not look like the versions shown on the Apple website (Very basic grey sidebar).

Post a screenshot of what you're seeing.
OT

I have 9.0.1 on 2 pc's, both xp sp3. On 1 the 'open new tab' button is visible, on the other, the 'open new tab' button is not even available in the 'customize toolbar' menu for dragging and dropping. Why?

I used the same installation file, but on 1 pc, the 'open new tab' button is available in the 'customize toolbar' menu and can be dragged and dropped onto the navigation bar. On the other pc, the 'open new tab' button/icon is not even available for dragging and dropping. I uninstalled firefox completely, including settings and preferences, then reinstalled, but that did not correct the missing button.

Hi,
Please try '''Restore Default Set''' in the '''Customize...''' window. If it's still not visible, one reason could be that the button is already placed on the toolbar but may be hidden behind another icon or toolbar.
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[https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Options%20window All about Tools > Options]
[http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config Going beyond Tools > Options - about:config]
[http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries about:config Entries]
[https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Page%20Info%20window Page Info] Tools (Alt + T) > Page Info, Right-click > View Page Info
[https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Keyboard%20shortcuts Keyboard Shortcuts]
[https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Viewing%20video%20in%20Firefox%20without%20a%20plugin Viewing Video without Plugins]
[http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox Firefox Profile Folder & Files]
[https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Command_Line_Options#Browser Firefox Commands]
[https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Basic%20Troubleshooting Basic Troubleshooting]
[https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/common-questions-after-upgrading-firefox-36 After Upgrading]
[https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe%20Mode Safe Mode]
[http://kb.mozillazine.org/Problematic_extensions Problematic Extensions]
[https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Troubleshooting%20extensions%20and%20themes Troubleshooting Extensions and Themes]
[https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Troubleshooting%20plugins Troubleshooting Plugins]
[http://kb.mozillazine.org/Testing_plugins Testing Plugins]

How can i let a move clip complete his motion tween movement after dragging and dropping it

hi how can i let a move clip complete his motion tween movement after dragging and dropping it
i am using this code and there is a motion tween applies to the movie clip r_mc
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play(); r_mc.stopDrag();

i have a simple .fla file wich contains MC that has
a motion tween(its moving from the left to the right of the stage)
this motion tween covers the whole time line ( there is only 50 frames in the time line)
i mean in the frame 1 the MC appears in the left of the stage
and in the frame 50 the MC appears in the right of the stage and there is a motion tween between them
every thing till now working well
i want to make that MC dragabble
so when i drag the MC i will use stop()
and when i drop it i will use play()
but the problem is that the mc doesnt move and complete
his motion tween movement when i drop it
for example the MC will be in the middle of the stage in frame 25
in this frame (25) i am draging the MC ,stoping the timeline,dropping the MC and resum playing the timeline again
but the MC freezes in the middle of the stage and doesnt go to the right of the stageo until the flash loops and start from the frame 1 again
here is the example wich i am worikng on
http://www.mediafire.com/?ia47r4owha7sz8v
thank u very much and sorry for my bad English

I can't drag and drop songs onto my iPod from iTunes. (Manual transfer is not working.) Please help!

Normally, I just select songs and I'm able to drag and drop them from my library onto my device. I have an iPod Touch and an iPhone 4. I want to drag and drop my songs from the library onto my iPod Touch. I have already selected manual upload instead of automatic sync. I tried suggestions from the Mac message board (since other people seem to have had a similar issue), and their solutions didn't work for me. I have restarted both iTunes, my computer, and reconnected my iPod multiple times. I don't know what's going on, and I can't find a fix anywhere in iTunes help. If anyone knows what to do, or has any suggestions, please let me know! Thanks.

Update: I seem to have fixed the problem! I went to the "summary" section of my iPod after clicking on the device on the left side of iTunes. I checked the box that allowed me to "manually manage music and videos" and applied this option. The songs are syncing! And, yay, they're playing on my iPod now! Hopefully, this helps anyone else who might have this problem. There might be other issues, but this is working for now.

Can't drag and drop on desktop and I've tried all suggestions from previous threads

Yesterday I found that I can't drag and drop any files on my desktop. I get the white circle with a line through it when I try to drag anything. I can drag off of my desktop to my HD and to the trash but I can't drag anything back.
I've read all of the previous threads about it and have tried all of the poetntail fixes including:
Creating a new user account and switching back and forth
Sleep / Wake
Relaunching Finder
Checking the Dragging option in Universal Access
Checking all of my settings in prefrences
(I don't have Air Display, Airparrot or any of the other listed problematic 3rd party programs)
I even reinstalled Lion and the problem still exists
Anybody have any other pointers, or should I head into the Genius Bar?

Repairing the permissions of a home folder in Lion is a complicated procedure. I don’t know of a simpler one that always works.
Back up all data now. Before proceeding, you must be sure you can restore your system to its present state
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☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the page that opens.
Drag or copy — do not type — the following line into the Terminal window, then press return:
chmod -R -N ~
The command will take a noticeable amount of time to run. When a new line ending in a dollar sign ($) appears below what you entered, it’s done. You may see a few error messages about an “invalid argument” while the command is running. You can ignore those. If you get an error message with the words “Permission denied,” enter this:
sudo !!
You'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. You may get a one-time warning not to screw up.
Next, boot into Recovery by holding down the key combination command-R at startup. Release the keys when you see a gray screen with a spinning dial.
When the Recovery screen appears, select Utilities ▹ Terminal from the menu bar.
In the Terminal window, enter “resetpassword” (without the quotes) and press return. A Reset Password window opens. You’re not going to reset the password.
Select your boot volume if not already selected.
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How can I attach an additional action to the "reset" button in the drag and drop interaction?

Hello,
I would like to know how to attach an additional behavior to the "reset" button in my drag and drop exercise.
Here is the background:
In my drag and drop exercise, when the user drops the source on a target of his choice, certain elements appear and certain elements disappear
This means that depending on where he dropped the sources, certain elements will be visible and certain elements invisible when he is finished the activity
Because the sources are not re-draggable once he drops them, he will have the option to reset the exercise and start again from the beginning using the reset button
My challenge:
I would like exercise to return to its original state when the user selects the rest button . this means:
the dragged objects return to their orginal starting location (this is what naturally occurs when you hit the reset button)
any objects that had disappeared during the course of the activity reappear
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Can you drag-and-drop music onto the iPhone in iTunes?

New to iPhone and only just braking it in, as it were.
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If this is indeed the only way to load music, what's the easiest I can pick out my favorite 2000-or so tunes and put them on there?? Don't tell me it's clicking on the boxes next to the songs in the Library page, because that's when I will start asking for my money back...
Cheers

I don't blame this person whatsoever for making the assumption that the iPod portion of his phone would work similarily, if not the same, as the iPod.
But it does work the same as the iPod. As with an iPod, you can sync all songs and playlists, or selected playlists, or you can manually manage music and videos. You can also select sync only checked songs and videos under the Summary tab and uncheck the songs in your iTunes library that you don't want transferred to your iPhone. This can be used with syncing selected playlists - if you want to remove a song from your iPhone that is in a selected playlist without removing the song from the playlist in iTunes, you uncheck the song in the playlist in iTunes followed by a sync. There is no difference with an iPod in this regard except for the iPhone not supporting disk mode.
In order to manually manage music and videos with an iPod, you must select this under the Summary tab for the iPod sync preferences, and the same for the iPhone.
And if you resent his rant, why respond and waste your volunteer time on this post?
I can waste my time anyway I see fit. If you don't like it, don't respond.
And not everyone can afford to replace this type of investment on a whim.
Copied from the OP's post.
Don't tell me it's clicking on the boxes next to the songs in the Library page, *because that's when I will start asking for my money back...*
Or the iPhone can be sold to someone else with the proceeds used to purchase a different phone. I haven't read any reports about someone having trouble selling their iPhone used at a good price even if damaged.

HT204364 Hi, I have managed to make a calendar in iphoto but when I try and make a card I don't have any photos to drag and drop! I have tried opening an album but when I click on make a card the area which should have the photos in it is blank! Please

Hi,
I am trying to make a photocard in iphoto '09 but when I open an album and then click on card the area where the photos to drag and drop should be is blank. I have managed to make a calender (which has the photos there to use) and can't work out what I am doing wrong. Please can someone help? Thank you

Put the photos in an album, open the album and select all, go to the create button and select card - to add more photos to the project drag them ot the card project in the source pane on the left
LN

Do I need to have data before performing Drag and Drop????

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Hello
I've had the same problem, but take a look at: http://foxtrot.sourceforge.net/
You can use their API to start the long consuming time job (reading files from the network) and also to paint a progress bar, showing the progress in the Event Dispatch Thread.
This is how I've solved my problem:
I've passed a MyTransferable object to the startDrag method of the DragGestureEvent event.
In the getTransferData method of MyTransferable object (that implements Transferable interface) I've used the Worker.post method of their API which reads the file from the network and updates a progress bar.
The API lets the Event Dispatch Thread enter but not return from the listener method (getTransferData in my case), instead rerouting the Event Dispatch Thread to continue dequeuing events from the Event Queue and processing them (repaint the progress bar). Once the worker thread has finished, the Event Dispatch Thread is rerouted again, returning from the listener method.

Now that I have home share my drag and drop feature doesn't work to create playlists

Now with Home Share there are two subsets of playlists. One is on the hard drive of the acutual computer where the iTunes originated. Once I am at a Home Share computer I cannot use the playlist feature. I can CREATE a playlist and name it, but the drag and drop feature does not work for songs which are not directly located on this hard drive. I can, for some reason, attach an iPod and make a list over on that, but that is all.

Because IE is running in a different user context. You cannot drag and drop anything from Explorer into a different user context. This isn't a "SharePoint" issue, as it relates to any application run as a different user.
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I don't know when this behavior started and I don't recall doing any major updates when it first stopped working.
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Can't drag and drop files to any folder in iTunes

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Thanks!!

russkarp wrote:
I am running WIN7 64Bit and have recently lost the ability to drag files from any windows folder to anywhere in iTunes (playlists, tones, etc.). Is anyone else having this issue??
Thanks!!
I am running iTunes 10.6 on Win7 and it is working as normal, i.e. if you drag a song file from a Windows folder into an open playlist, iTunes adds the song both to that playlist and to the library.
Pls provide a few more details about what is not working for you, and perhaps someone here can help.

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