Drag from AIR app to folder

Hello,
can someone show me a simple example how to drag a file from an AIR desktop app to a folder?
What I'do like to archive is to let users draw inside a movieclip and onced finished they should be able to drag and save their image to a folder as a .JPG
Is that possible?
Thanks!

Joe,
That's what I was afraid of. Thanks for the help. I guess I'll start on a workaround.
-Matt

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