Do You Use It? Proxy Icons

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Originally published at: Do You Use It? Proxy Icons - TidBITS

This week’s Do You Use It? poll asks how often you use proxy icons? Not even sure what they are? We hope that once we report on the results, you’ll become a convert.

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Please post your comments about how you use proxy icons in the actual poll thread.

Do You Use It? Proxy Icons

In many windows on the Mac (primarily the Finder and document-focused apps), a tiny icon sits next to the window’s name. It’s called the proxy icon, and as its name suggests, it’s a stand-in for the Finder icon for whatever appears in the window. You can drag a document’s proxy icon to an app in the Dock to open it, to Mail to attach it to the current message, to the Trash to delete it, to an Open or Save dialog to navigate to the proxy icon’s location, and so on. Nearly anything you do with an …