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-====== How to start to use DropIt ====== 
-===== (crash course) ===== 
  
-Download it, install (or extract) it and run it.\\ 
-It appears to Float on top of your desktop or anything you are running. 
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-Good. It's supposed to... a little Blue Down arrow. ​ It actually lives in my System Tray on the bottom of the screen for me.  That's it. Good. 
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-NOW. 
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-First understand this fact.  I have a folder on my desktop where I put all my text files. ​ It's called, Duh, "TXT to Keep". 
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-Let's start. 
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-It's Floating like Magic. 
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-Right Click the DROPIT Icon. 
-Pick Manage Associations. 
-Click on Green Plus mark "​+"​ to create your new association. 
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-1. Name 
-You type there, the words "Copy TXT to Folder on Desktop"​. 
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-2. Rules 
-You click on "blue i" for information (you need information after all). 
-Pick "Rule examples"​ for jpg files, click on it, it throws an example into your real Rule box, ie *.jpg 
-Now edit it so it reads *.txt which means "All txt files"​. ​ You want the "​txt"​ association,​ not jpg. 
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-3. Action 
-Here you pick what to do with your TXT files. Pick COPY, of course. 
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-4. Destination Folder 
-Click yellow folder icon, find Desktop and click it. 
-DROPIT types the path to your Desktop for you. It works for you. 
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-Click SAVE, and the Green Check mark button on the right closes DROPIT. 
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-It's still floating, waiting for your next drag and drop. 
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-Go back and look at it all again. Pat yourself on the back. 
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-There it is, floating, check its box, and make it the Default Action. 
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-The next time that you drag a TXT file to the DROPIT Icon and let go of it, it will read your "​default"​ DROPIT rule and copy the text file to your folder on the desktop for you. If you drag and drop a "​DOC"​ or "​JPG"​ file by mistake, nothing will happen. ​ Your rule is for dealing with txt files. 
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-Just DROPIT and it's done.  How easy it is to use. 
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-Now go and make some more new Rules so you can just select one when you are working with files. You won't have time to think about it then. 
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