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Moving folders in Finder without copying
You can also hold the Option key while dragging in the Finder to move rather than copy, in cases in which the Finder insists upon copying by default. Otherwise, the behaviour is, of course, that holding Option will copy files that would otherwise have been just moved.
Moving folders in Finder without copying
Actually, if you want to move files across disks, you use command-drag to force a move rather than a copy. There is no way to force a move when you are copying across owners.
Moving folders in Finder without copying
Command drag worked for files but not folders. And changing the permissions had no effect.
Moving folders in Finder without copying
Command-drag works for folders for me (10.6.4). What version are you on?
Moving folders in Finder without copying
It's not like this is a recent feature. The option/command modifiers for explicitly copying or moving (respectively) have been around since at least System 7.
Moving folders in Finder without copying
yeah, that happens to me all the time. just this morning I "discovered" that you could use Expose to flip through windows application by application by hitting the tab/shift-tab keys while in Expose mode (a feature introduced in 10.3, so I learned). I still thought it was exciting, though. :)
Moving folders in Finder without copying
It's Command, not Option. |
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