Drag & drop images from Firefox?

[gse]

Firefox allows you to drag & drop an image from a web page to Windows Explorer, saving the image in the directory you drop it. Great feature, but it doesn't quite work in TC -- instead you get a 0-length file.

I saw a thread about this on the German forum but sadly my German is non-existant. Any plans to support this? I'd love to see it supported.

[Krobb]

It works for me (with FireFox 1.0 and TC 6.03a)

[gse]

Aha -- it looks like the problem is only on network shares. It works for me on local drives but not my file server.

[gse]

Well - I'm still seeing this problem, and not just on network shares. Christian?

[ghisler(Author)]

Sorry, I haven't found a way yet to correct this problem. When FF reports the drop to Total Commander, the file exists, but it is empty.

[gse]

That's a shame -- I love this feature.

Works with FF -> Windows Explorer, somehow...

[StickyNomad]

2ghisler(Author)
I miss this possibility too sometimes. I hope you find a way to implement this...

[ghisler(Author)]

Sorry, I don't have the source code of Explorer, so I don't know what it does differently. Maybe it's just saving the file names, and then copies the files in some other, delayed thread, so Firefox has time to create its files? Anyway, Firefox is the only program which sends empty files to TC...

[djorge]

Firefox 1.0.7
Windows XP SP2
TC 6.53

I works here even with network shares....

[Lefteous]

It works fine for me even with network shares
Firefox 1.5
Windows XP SP 2
TC 6.54 BETA 4

[Hasli]

Win 2000 pro SP4 / Firefox 1.5:
works fine with Explorer (also with network shares)
don't work with TC 6.53

BUT: the picture is in the TEMP-Directory. Drag and drop to X:\image. In X:\image there is pic.jpg 0 byte. In C:\temp there is pic.jpg.

[sqa_wizard]

Win 2000 pro SP4 / Firefox 1.5 (both english):
works fine with

TC 6.53
TC 6.54 Public BETA 1

(also with network shares)

Tried jpeg png GIF pictures ...

May it depends on a FF plugin ?

[gbo]

TC 6.53
Windows XP SP 1
Firefox 1.07

It doesn't work when drag and drop in TC pane

but

It works when drag and drop on a zip file which is in TC pane, in fact it will pack the picture correctly in the zip file.

Don't know if it makes "avancer le schmilblick" (french expression)

[sqa_wizard]

I think I've found the difference.

It depends on the way you drop it !

Drag it from browser and drop it directly into TC pane ... and you got a 0 byte file.

Drag it from browser to the TC entry at the task bar first, wait until TC appears ... and drop it to the TC pane then => you get the full file

[Sheepdog]

Drag it from browser and drop it directly into TC pane ... and you got a 0 byte file. Sad

Drag it from browser to the TC entry at the task bar first, wait until TC appears ... and drop it to the TC pane then => you get the full file

You have the makings of a beta-tester. This seems indeed to make the difference.

sheepdog