MS has one of the worst marketing teams in existence (like, remember the bomb that was the Jerry Seinfeld commercials where they spent like 100 million dollars and people were burnt out on the commercials before they were even released). When I broke my arm that feature saved me, yet, you don't ever hear about them touting features like that. Mac comes out with it and everyone's like OMG, that's so innovative, you can talk to it and it does stuff. I mean, they've had *great* voice recognition since XP and built into Windows since Vista. MS doesn't do a good job of advertising it's features. At that point, it's almost faster for me to drive to the office, throw a thumb drive in, get the files, then drive home than it is to wait for them to finish (granted, I'm talking about large files).Įither way, it works and it's easy to use. you're on VPN that's encrypted, and then the RDP is encrypted on top of that). Even more slow if you're RDP'ing over an encrypted connection (e.g. This may be obvious for many of you, but it So all this time, I had no idea cut and paste operations for files workĪcross remote desktop. Or, I can simply drag and drop the info.txt from my remote desktop One way I can get that file to my local machine is to copy it to the mapped My remote machine, which has a text file named info.txt. “ C on HAACKBOOK” which can be used to copy files back and forth fromīut here’s the part I didn’t know. You can see in the screenshot, the file explorer has another drive named Now you can select a local disk to be shared with the remote machine.įor example, in this case I selected my C: drive. Make sure Clipboard is checked, and then hit the More… button.
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