Copying Using Drag and Drop

Using Apple Remote Desktop (ARD), you can copy items by dragging them between Finder windows on your administrator computer, the Remote Desktop window, and report windows. For example, you can drag an item from a Finder window to a selected computer in the Remote Desktop window. Alternatively, you can drag from a Software Report window to another computer in an ARD computer list.

You can use this feature to collect needed files from remote computers, or distribute files between remote computers.

1. Select a computer list.
2. Select one or more computers in the Remote Desktop window.
3. Switch to the Finder.
4. Locate the item you want to copy in the Finder.
5. Drag the item you want to copy from the Finder to the selected clients in the Remote Desktop window.
6. If you want the copied items to open after being copied, select Open After Copying.

   If you select this option, files will open in the application that created them.

7. Choose what to do if an item exists.
8. Click Copy.