(Loading & Saving, Drag & Drop) DRAG FILES FROM PHOTO JOCKEY

Photo Jockey supports drag & drop to Windows Explorer file manager. You can also drag/drop to your desktop screen too. You can even drop onto other applications like Paint programs, ICQ instant messenger program, OutLook email program and many more. Of course the recipient needs to support drag/drop in order for them to accept dropped files.

HINT: You can easily drag files from the main image display area into the Folder Tree View so you can effectively copy or move a single file or multiple tagged files into some other folder.

Simply DRAG from Photo Jockey Image Display area and DROP where you want to. You are given the options to drop the file as normal or to drop ShortCuts to the file or to JPGConvert

WARNING: If you are dropping some files that have a Photo Jockey database entry for them, then you need to realize that if you drop onto Windows Explorer/Desktop THEN Photo Jockey WILL NOT KNOW the destination folder. Thus, these files that are being copied into some "unknown" folder WILL NOT have their database entry copied for them. Of course your originals will still keep their database entry, but the newly created copy will NOT. This is not a bug or a bad thing, it's just something to consider. For example: If you drag and drop to copy 10 files into a new folder, THEN you DELETE those 10 original files. Then since your 10 new files won't have any database entries for them, then when you do a database search for information what WAS stored for the old files, the database search function won't find any matching records. So, it's a good idea to copy the database records as you copy files. A simple way to do this is to use the COPY function in Photo Jockey, OR the simplest way is to drag and drop onto the Folder Tree View window. Since Photo Jockey controls this window, it will know how to copy the database entries. SPECIAL NOTE: If you drag/drop onto an application like Paint, or Outlook or Excel or pretty much anything that is not a file manager, then you don't have to worry about the above comments on database entries.

TIP: If you are in ZOOM viewing mode and you are looking at a large image, then if you drag the image, it will just scroll around the window :) In order to tell Photo Jockey to DRAG/DROP, you need to hold down on the shift key while dragging.

HINT: When you do the DROP, you are asked if you want to drop the currently displayed image, OR ALL tagged (Selected) files. Click here to learn how to select multiple files.

NOTE: Of course you need to be able to see both Photo Jockey and the destination location at the same time. If Photo Jockey is currently in FULL SCREEN mode, you can re-size the program window size from the tools menu. Then you can move the Photo Jockey window around on your screen so that you can see both your file manager and the Photo Jockey program window.



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