Robocopy to remote desktop

Heres a handy tip I just recently learned from the new intern on our team [see, you can learn something from anyone on any given day]. Ive long known you could access your local drives from a remote machine.

For example, start up a remote desktop dialog.

Then expand the dialog by clicking on Options, then check the Local**Resources tab.

Make sure Clipboard is checked, and then hit the More button.

Now you can select a local disk to be shared with the remote machine. For example, in this case I selected my C: drive.

As you can see in the screenshot, the file explorer has another drive named C on HAACKBOOK which can be used to copy files back and forth from my local machine to the remote machine.

But heres the part I didnt know. Lets take a look at the desktop of my remote machine, which has a text file named info.txt.

One way I can get that file to my local machine is to copy it to the mapped drive we saw in the previous screenshot.

Or, I can simply drag and drop the info.txt from my remote desktop machine to a folder on my local machine.

So all this time, I had no idea cut and paste operations for files work across remote desktop. This may be obvious for many of you, but it wasnt to me. :]