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10.7: Cut and Paste files in Finder
How does this "make more sense"? They both seem equal to me. (It's an extension of the cut-and-paste metaphor, so it makes sense. Copy then move-here doesn't seem inherently better.)
10.7: Cut and Paste files in Finder
"Cut and Paste" as it applies to contents within documents is based on a real-life activity that predates digital workflows. There has never been any action outside of the digital realm that corresponds to copying and pasting a file. From that point of view, "move" certainly makes more sense.
10.7: Cut and Paste files in Finder
It makes more sense because it gives you more opportunity to decide what to do with the files you already have selected. Select files, find destination, then copy or move.
10.7: Cut and Paste files in Finder
This is why Cut and Paste is a bad metaphor in the Finder. CnP works like this in every app. Let's take a text app for example. You select a paragraph and select Cut. The paragraph is now gone and put on the clipboard. You take a brake and come back and select a new paragraph and select Cut. What's just happened? The new paragraph is now deleted and put onto the clipboard and the paragraph the was on the clipboard is now gone for good. |
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