Drag and drop from downloads tab into the body of an email to attach.
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I am constantly downloading an attachment from one email then sending it to someone else. (e.g., A lawyer emails me a form. I download it and send it to my client along with advice. My client emails me a signed copy which I download and send it back to the other lawyer. I cannot simply forward the messages because my communication with my client is confidential and direct contact between my client and the lawyer representing the other side of a transaction is unethical. People need to be able to hit "reply all" in each of these email chains. Interactions like this is about half of what I do when representing parties in real estate transactions.)
Not being able to drag the file from the downloads tab into the body of an email to make it an attachment is kind of a drag (pardon the pun). It's not enough to make me go back to Chrome, but it sure is something I miss. It's a time waster.
I like the general design of the downloads tab more than the pup-ups that Chrome does, but some added functionality would be great.
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@TheJabberwock Drag and Drop in the Downloads Panel is one of the top feature requests, and I guess this is related.
The workaround is not exactly difficult:
- Download the attachments from the first email
- Attach them to the second email
- Clear up the downloads folder at the end of the day
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@Pesala I'm sorry, I don't follow.
Step 2 in your workaround is "Attach them to the second email."
That's what I want to do. I want to drag the file I just downloaded from the downloads tab into the body of a new email to attach it, rather than hitting the attach button and going into file explorer.
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@TheJabberwock How do you attach files to any email now? You click the paper-clip icon and select the file in explorer.
If Drag and Drop is implemented/improved, you may be able to tile the draft with the received message, then D&D between them, eliminating the download step, and the downloads cleanup step (important with sensitive content).
See my tip on Composing Emails. It is convenient to view the original message alongside the reply or a new draft to someone else.
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I see now that his is a duplicate of Drag and Drop in Downloads Panel.
It would be better to drag and drop from the received mail to the reply or a new draft, without downloading the attachment.
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