Dreamweaver doesn’t allow you to drag files or folders from your desktop to Dreamweaver’s ‘files’ box

By Jim Jamesson on November 21st, 2008 | Posted in Pointless Dribble, Web Design | Permalink

Dreamweaver CS4 pisses me the hell off.

Dreamweaver CS4 pisses me the hell off.

I’m using a trial of Adobe’s brand-new Dreamweaver CS4. There has been one single basic feature that I feel has been missing from Dreamweaver since forever now, and that is the ability to drag a file or folder from your finder or desktop right into the files box in Dreamweaver. I figured surely with the release of CS4 this will be added. No chance.

I find it hard to believe that this functionality does not exist in Dreamweaver. All the Mac FTP clients I’ve used allow this. Unless I’m missing some hidden checkbox or preference option somewhere, this is not doable in this latest release (which otherwise looks a bit nicer than CS3).

Adobe, this is a real bummer. This would speed up people’s workflow. Why do you insist on keeping some of the functionality of your software products so close to Windowsey-crappiness. Do you people even use Macs? Do you even publish websites? You should be ashamed!

Man, I wish someone would come out with some extention or patch or fix for this. If anyone out there knows a cure, it would be rad of you to share! :)


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1 Astounding Comment »

  • This works in Windows. Drag files from Explorer right into the files box. It copies them to correct location. Maybe its just the Mac version. Yet one more reason not to use Mac. Or just buy the Windows version and run it in an emulator.

    Comment by Eddie Monge on December 15, 2008

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