Drag & Drop out of a File Attachment field

On my Mac I am routinely able to right click on a file attachment and do a "Save Link as", but then it goes into my file manager in order to save it on my local drives.  

One option which I implemented for a client was the Browser extension called download them all  

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/downthemall

They also have an extension for Firefox and perhaps some other browsers. The interface is a bit finicky to learn.  The extension looks for any file attachments on the whole page whether it be on a parent or child record and will mass download them into a file path on your local drive.  So it might work for you to download a batch of attachments onto a temporary file path on your computer and then drag them from there into other software products.  

A disadvantage of the browser extension method is that you have to install it on every computer which is going to be using it and do a little bit of user training on it. In my use case there were a limited number of people who were doing these file downloads but in the end they were most appreciative of being able to push a button and download 20 files at once instead of doing them one by one so it was well worth their time to figure out the add-on.  

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Mark Shnier (Your Quickbase Coach)
mark.shnier@gmail.com
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