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| This chapter is for those who are curious why WinSCP needs shell extension to allow direct downloads using drag&drop. | This chapter is for those who are curious why WinSCP needs shell extension to allow direct downloads using drag&drop. | ||
| - | Here is short explanation: Windows drag&drop mechanics does not allow source application of drag&drop operation to find out easily, where the files are dropped. It is up to target application (Windows Explorer usually) to transfer files to destination. It is rather reasonable, because source application can hardly transfer files to all possible destinations. Keep in mind that you can drop files not only to a directory, but even to ZIP file (or any other archive), remote directory (via FTP, SFTP, SCP, ...), trash, ... | + | Here is short explanation: Windows drag&drop mechanics does not allow source application of drag&drop operation to find out easily, where the files are dropped. It is up to target application (Windows Explorer usually) to transfer files to destination. It is rather reasonable, because source application can hardly transfer files to all possible destinations. Keep in mind that you can drop files not only to a directory, but even to ZIP file (or any other archive), remote directory (via [[FTP]], SFTP, SCP, ...), trash, ... |
| Obviously even Windows Explorer (or any other target application, like WinZip) cannot download files from any possible source (particularly it does not know SFTP/SCP). | Obviously even Windows Explorer (or any other target application, like WinZip) cannot download files from any possible source (particularly it does not know SFTP/SCP). | ||