So I'm getting ready to embark on a trip to Utah to visit Jess's family, and on the way there I figured I would do some side work to keep me busy on the ~6 hour flight. I installed dreamweaver, and photoshop on her macbook, and started setting up the site for the site I'm going to be working on. Then I got to the FTP password field. W.T.F. I haven't had to update this bad boy since I started working on the site over a year ago, and there is a zero percent chance that I'm going to remember this password. I have to change my password at work every time I drop duke, and with every other password I have, I cant be expected to remember client passwords too. In a panic, I first hit up my email. no dice. Although I did find the SQL server password which will come in handy when I'm doing DB work, but I probably won't be doing much of that on the trip.
I go upstairs to my iMac and hit up the site there, and of course it's a password field so I can't view it. I try copying and pasting, and that doesn't work. I start cruising the inter-tubes, and nothing there. I have no idea at this point what to do... I could pull the files over my network that are already on my mac, and then ftp them when I get home, but I was planning on doing some testing while gone, and my computer doesn't have coldfusion, and I'm not about to set up jess's laptop to be it's own server, just for this short trip. As a last ditch effort, I highlight the password on my iMac, and drag the highlighted text to another form field, and it magically appears. I dunno if this is SUPPOSED to happen, but it worked, and I was able to connect to the server.
This exited me enough to post. If this interests you, drop me a comment and see if this works in other password fields, or if it's just a problem with dreamweaver. I'm currently setting up my phone as a modem, because I hear they only have dial-up in Utah still. At least that's what my old co-worker Wilson led me to believe.
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