I use proxy icons a lot. I found that in Big Sur they are hidden till you hover over the title then they appear after a second or so. All those seconds were adding up for me.
Today I found that if I hold the shift key and mouse over the title then the proxy icon appears immediately. I'd rather have a setting to keep it visible always, but this is better than nothing.
For non-users, the proxy icon is the little icon of a folder that appears next to the title of a window. If the Finder is looking for a folder destination you can drag that icon to that window to instantly direct the Finder there. For example, you create a new document and you want to save it to some project folder which is already open. You click ctrl-S and instead of having to navigate to this folder just drag the proxy icon to the destination window. Saves a lot of time.
This may be a well known short cut, but I just ran across it and thought I'd pass it on to the dozens and dozens of other people using proxy icons who didn't know this yet.
Today I found that if I hold the shift key and mouse over the title then the proxy icon appears immediately. I'd rather have a setting to keep it visible always, but this is better than nothing.
For non-users, the proxy icon is the little icon of a folder that appears next to the title of a window. If the Finder is looking for a folder destination you can drag that icon to that window to instantly direct the Finder there. For example, you create a new document and you want to save it to some project folder which is already open. You click ctrl-S and instead of having to navigate to this folder just drag the proxy icon to the destination window. Saves a lot of time.
This may be a well known short cut, but I just ran across it and thought I'd pass it on to the dozens and dozens of other people using proxy icons who didn't know this yet.
