The Temporary Shelf


The Temporary Shelf is intended to store references to items for a short period, for example to hold items from one location in the file system while you are browsing to another folder. The following example illustrates the functionality of this shelf:

Consider the file TestFile which is located in the root directory of the volume Orion. The folder tmp is selected and its contents shown in the second list view. As you can see, it is empty.












We have now dragged TestFile to the Temporary Shelf. This shelf stores just a reference to TestFile, so its location in the file system has not changed: it is still in the root directory of Orion.












Dragging and dropping items from the shelf, though, is essentially the same as dragging the original object. Here we have dragged TestFile from the shelf and dropped it on the contents list of the tmp folder. As a consequence TestFile has been moved from Orion's root directory to the tmp folder. If we had held down the CTRL key while dropping the file, it would have been copied instead of moved (This works just as in Be's Browser, including dragging between different volumes.)



Note that items are removed from the Temporary Shelf when dragged. To drag an item from the shelf without removing it, simply hold down the CTRL key while starting the drag.


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