How to quickly open files from one Mac-applications in other

How often, while working for the Mac, you have a need to open a current file you were working with, from one application - in another? Agree, such situations are quite often. Most of the users in this case proceed as follows: back in the Finder, find the right file and open it with another application or app and have it open the desired file. However, there is another way to open the file with which you are working, as soon as another application and it is often easier and faster than traditional methods.

This technique is based on the use of elements called Proxy icon, which is a small icon of a document, located next to the filename in the title bar. They appear in most Mac-applications (provided that this function is supported), but that you have not noticed them and had no idea of ​​their destination, it is not surprising. You are not alone. However, the interactive element and we are going to use it to re-open this file in another application.

Consider the opening image of the viewer Pixelmator. Please note that the file you are going to open another application must be saved disk space (to him there could drag), ie with unsaved files this method is not working. In addition, not every application supports Proxy icons, but all of the standard applications, of course, able to do this.

To "drag" the current file, which you have not worked from one application to another, you have to do with a click confinement in a small icon, and after she darkened, without releasing the button to move it to icon application.

Icon new application may be in the dock, as in our example, but you can also drag and drop files on the Finder toolbar icons, or even in the Launchpad.

To open a file in the application of the Launchpad, start dragging a file and then invoke the Launchpad using a hot key or a gesture of the drag and drop the file icon for the desired application.

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