I previously covered Yoink 1.0 , a neat usefulness that provided a virtual shelf for temporarily storing content . As I excuse at the time , moving an item between two different locations in your driveway ’s leaflet hierarchy , or between drive , usually involves opening two Finder windows : one for the folder currently hosting the item , the other displaying the place to which you want to move the file . Mac OS X ’s pop out - up leaflet can help , but , among other drawbacks , still postulate that the destination folder ( or at least some folder or labor enclosing it ) be visible in the Finder or in the Dock . Similarly , if you practice OS X ’s Spaces sport , it can be a tussle to move files between windows ( and programs ) in unlike workspace , and Lion ( Mac OS X 10.7 ) tally the challenge of dragging files and brochure to apps that you employ in full - screen mode — there ’s no sluttish way to do it .
Yoink ’s shelf made such moves easier , although back in September I classified it as a Promising Prospect because of a number of limitations . The developer recently releasedYoink 2.0(Mac App Store radio link ) , and it fetch enough improvements to warrant another look .
With Yoink running , whenever you set about drag a filing cabinet or folder in the Finder , a pocket-size ledge slides out from the side of your screen . Drag your item onto the shelf to temporarily store its icon . ( The factual item remains — for now — in its original location . ) you’re able to then navigate to the destination location , in the current Finder window or in a new one , and then drag out the item ’s image off the ledge and into the destination folder to perform the actual move .
The ledge appear in every workspace , making it ready to hand for move file across workspaces and into full - covert apps . Just as if you ’d used the Finder , if the address is on the same mass as the original , the point is moved ; if the destination is on a unlike book , the item is copy .
Yoink 2 ’s ledge still record only three point at a time , presenting a scroll bar if you drag more than three item into it . The Quick Look icon next to an detail return you a ready preview of that item , but in variation 2 , that trailer is larger , making this feature more useful . Dragging an detail off the ledge removes the detail from the shelf , but you’re able to also remove an item by click the X button next to its image — the original item ( in the Finder ) is insensible . There ’s also a new Scots heather - icon push button that clears all items from the shelf with a single clink .
After go an detail onto the shelf , the ledge remains seeable until you empty it ( by drag all of your impermanent files to their address or by blue-pencil those token from the shelf ) . However , unlike with the original reading of Yoink , Yoink 2 offer a few ways to blot out a populated shelf : you could opt Show / cover Yoink Window from a fresh systemwide menu , you could choose a like option from the shelf ’s Action ( * ) menu , or you could press a configurable Yoink hotkey ( keyboard cutoff ) . However , I had problem with the last of these options , as when I configured my favored keyboard shortcut in Yoink ’s Preferences window , the programme would n’t discern modifier keys . For example , if I choose Shift - controller - D for my shortcut , the correct shortcut showed up in Yoink ’s setting windowpane , but the program distinguish D by itself … which meant I could n’t typewrite the letter ergocalciferol in school text .
Also fresh in edition 2 is the capableness to dragcontent , rather than just files , to Yoink ’s ledge . For instance , you may now drag a snipping of text from a document , or even an image from a web page , onto the shelf and afterwards draw it into a different document or app program . There are a brace caveat here : First , sometimes dragging school text from a document does n’t automatically make the shelf appear ; at times I had to use the aforementioned keyboard shortcut to bring up the ledge , and then drag my content . ( This is also the process you ’d apply to drag particular from , say , a push-down stack in the Dock . ) Second , after drag content into the ledge , it takes a few second before that content is available for drop behind to a destination . In contrast , when you put data file and folders on the shelf , those items are available for dragging immediately .
Another utilitarian newfangled feature article is an choice to expose a dragged group of files as a individual stack in the ledge ; you may then trail that push-down store elsewhere to move all the files together . A clitoris next to a tidy sum have you manually split the mess into its single items .
Eternal Storms has also added a practiced turn of options for tweaking shelf position and behavior . For representative , you may now pick out for the ledge to come along at the top , nerve centre , or bottom of the left or correct edge of your screen , and — even better for those of us with multiple exhibit — to seem on the screen on which you ’re actually haul items . you could still enable an alternative for the ledge to appear under the mouse pointer when dragging items , and you could still choose how long the ledge stay on the screen when it ’s waiting for you to drop something onto it .
A few literary criticism I had of version 1.0 rest in version 2 . For instance , the ledge is too minute to display most token name calling , and there ’s no manner to view the full name . A utile feature would be a help tag end that displays an item ’s name if you hover the arrow over the point . That aid ticket could also display the full path to the detail ’s current location . I ’d also like to be able to lock an individual file so that it remains in the ledge even when I dredge it off . ( you’re able to currently enable that demeanour for all items , but not for just a particular token — it ’s an all - or - nothing scope . )
Still , Yoink has been improved considerably since its introduction , realize it a utile utility that ’s easy to desegregate into your workflow .
( Note : As with the original reading of Yoink , although the course of study useable for purchase only from the Mac App Store , you candownload a 15 - day test version(670k .zip file ) to see if you wish using it before buying . )
