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Hello Adam,

Thank you for your patience.

I've checked on the issue with our developers - unfortunately, the fact that your General address book is stored on a UNC path is definitely affecting its functionality in general and might be what is causing the issues with drag and drop.
In order to confirm this, you can install Viewer on a regular Windows machine where the General address book will be stored in the following directory: C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Remote Utilities Files\connections_4.xml - this is where General Address book is stored by default. Alternatively, you can also run a Portable Viewer instead. In this case, moving and sorting connection entries by dragging and dropping should work as expected.

Please note that in case if you want to set up the address book sync, it's recommended to it set up as described in this tutorial or even setting up a sync server.

Please let me know if you have more questions.

Hello Marco,

Of course, please feel free to let us know if there are any updates on this.

Thank you!

Hello John,

Thank you for your message.

Sure, I've forwarded this question to our development department and asked them if we can provide any approximate ETA on the Host/Agent for Mac/Linux release. Sorry for keeping you waiting.

I'll get back to you as soon as I hear from our developers on this.

Hello Giovanni,

Thank you for the clarification.

Unfortunately, Remote Utilities does not support inverted colors for a mouse cursor yet. However, I'll forward this feature request to our development department for a review to see if we can add this feature in our future updates. Sorry if this makes the program less useful for you.

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Please let us know if you have other questions.

Hello Adam,

The "Advanced Hint Window" does not show while hovering over an "online" connection unfortunately.

Yes, unfortunately, if the connection is simply "Online" you still would not be able to see the "preview" on the Advanced Hint window - in order to see it, you need to log in to the remote Host. You can also log in without starting a remote session right away - simply right-click on the preferred connection and select "Logon" or navigate to the Connection tab of the Viewer's ribbon toolbar and select "Log on" as described here. This will allow you to see preview of the remote screen in both - address book and in the Advanced Hint window without starting a remote session.

Hope that helps.

Hello Adam and David,

David, thank you for your input. I have just tested this out myself as well and can confirm that dragging and dropping connections works whether it's between local and synced address books or between different folders and sub-folders in the same book.

Adam, I'll forward the question regarding the address book location to our developers and will ask for their input on this to see if this can cause the issue or affect the address book functionality. I'll get back to you with their reply on this soon. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Please let me know if you have more questions.

Hello Giovanni,

Thank you for your message.

Am I right in assuming that you have your mouse cursor set to Inverted colors in the Ease of Access -> Mouse pointer settings window?


Looking forward to your reply.

Hello Adam,

Thank you for your message.

Sorting connections between your address books via drag and drop is already possible. Please note that "All connections" section displays all your connections fr om all your address books that are currently added to your Viewer, i.e. if you currently have only "General address book" added to your Viewer (this is a default address book wh ere all connections get saved by default), then each entry displayed in the "All connections" section is already added to the "General address book". If you add a custom address book, whether a local or synced one, you're able to simply grab the connection entry from the Viewer's right panel, then drag it to the left navigation pane, to the preferred address book and folder.

Hope that helps.

Hello Adam,

Thank you for your message.

Do you mean the Advanced hint window? Unfortunately, being able to see previews for logged on connections only is expected behavior.

It would be nice to be able to ID a PC if it is actively being used or not via the preview, without logging on, as the logging on notifies the user, disturbing their work.

Thank you for your suggestion! We already have this feature in our wishlist - we plan to add an "idle time" feature to Viewer so techs would be able to see if the remote machine is being actively used or if it's idle and improve the thumbnail view in order to display more information on the remote Host as well. Unfortunately, we cannot provide any specific ETA on this yet.

Hope that helps.

Hello Adam,

Thank you for your message.

We do have the feature in our wish list, but unfortunately, we cannot provide any specific ETA on it yet. However, I'll additionally check on it with our developers to see if there are any updates on it.

Please let me know if you have mother questions.