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Drag And Drop Question With Finder

jparker402

jparker402

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Jun 7, 2016
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Have a question here. In the upper right portion here I have a Finder window open with a .PDF file selected. I am trying to drag and drop it into the iCloud Pages window I have open at the lower right. But when I drag and drop, it snaps right back. The same file but as a .Pages format dropped right into place. What am I misunderstanding? Are PDF formats incompatible with Pages folders? Are there any other incompatibilities? For instance, what can I and what can't I drop into a Numbers folder?
 
May have just found the answer from a YouTube video by Joel Feld on iCloud Drive. Pages, Numbers and other types of files are designed by Apple to be in "proprietary" folders in iCloud Drive. Hence, dropping in a non-Apple file type, like PDF, will not work. Just the way it is designed.
 
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