The modest discoveries of a recent Mac switcher. For my own records, and to help anyone interested!

Friday, 1 May 2009

Copy, Paste, but no Cut

Problem: In the finder, you would like to cut files and paste them in another location, but there is no 'cut' entry in the context menu of files.

Solution: There is no possibility of cutting files to the clipboard in Finder. Instead, you should drag-and-drop, using the Command key if necessary.

To know more:
Why is it not possible to cut files? There might be several rerasons:
-It's destructive and dangerous (Indeed in windows if you cut then paste files, then cancel the pasting operation with ctrl-z, the file generally disappears for ever).
-The drag-and-drop support is so good that there is no need for cut-paste :-)
Fair enough.

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