{"id":3993,"date":"2010-08-06T11:20:10","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T09:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tokao.com\/?p=3993"},"modified":"2010-08-06T11:20:10","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T09:20:10","slug":"gmail-now-lets-you-save-attachments-to-the-desktop-via-drag-and-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/06\/gmail-now-lets-you-save-attachments-to-the-desktop-via-drag-and-drop\/","title":{"rendered":"Gmail Now Lets You Save Attachments to the Desktop via Drag-and-Drop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saving dozens of e-mail file attachments to your computer just became a hell of a lot easier.<\/p>\n<p>Google\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/gmailblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/drag-and-drop-attachments-to-save-them.html\" target=\"_blank\">has added<\/a> a new feature to\u00a0Gmail: the ability to save file attachments by simply dragging-and-dropping them onto the desktop. If you hover over the file icon or the \u201cDownload\u201d link for any attachment, you\u2019ll notice the new text prompting you to drag the file to your desktop to save.<\/p>\n<p>We just tried out the new feature, and we have to tell you: It\u2019s really as simple as it sounds. There is one caveat to saving file attachments via drag-and-drop, though: The feature is only available in\u00a0Google Chrome.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.mashable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/drag-drop-gmail-525.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"421\" height=\"218\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Google has been adding more drag-and-drop functionality to Gmail in recent months. Back in April, Google launched\u00a0the ability to add attachments to e-mails via drag-and-drop. In May, Google gave Gmail users the ability\u00a0to add images to e-mails via drag-an-drop.<\/p>\n<p>(from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2010\/08\/03\/gmail-drag-drop-save\/\">mashable<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saving dozens of e-mail file attachments to your computer just became a hell of a lot easier. Google\u00a0has added a new feature to\u00a0Gmail: the ability to save file attachments by simply dragging-and-dropping them onto the desktop. If you hover over the file icon or the \u201cDownload\u201d link for any attachment, you\u2019ll notice the new text [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9,89],"class_list":["post-3993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-google","tag-mashable"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}