max doesnt know anything about the path which the mouse is theoretically pointing on when it is in the finder/explorer i am afraid. but as a workaround why not use dropfile to drop a target folder onto it and then have an "export" or "save" button beside it. (maybe with "desktop" and "user/.../max 7/..." as default locations)

What I want is sending a list of filenames to an external which is then telling the OS to drag these files until mouse is released. To any target. I don't think the drag source has to know much about the target.. i'm tired of doing workarounds ;) lg O.

you (the external) somehow must link the mouse position to the OS browser. well, maybe that is possible (just as screen recording once was possible with nato)

but what do i know about externals. the only thing i know is that it can be wise to remain sceptical. about everything. :)

i remember well how baffled (or better amazed) i was when i found out that the drag and rop manager in mac os 7 allowed to drag and drop layers of pictures files directly between photoshop 3 and graphic converter.

I have promising results. For Windows Anders Karlsson created this library https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32cdnd/ that allows handling some stuff on a slightly higher level. He tagged it as GPL 2.0. If I use this I have to go with GPL 2.0, too. Does this work for an external? As I understand it would force everyone using it to distribute the source with it. Can we just link for example to a github repo instead? Everyone using it must release under GPL 2. I understand this when the sourcecode is reused for another external but how far does it go up the chain. It doesn't mean the patcher or standalone or m4live device using the external has to go with GPL, right?