Apple Event: May 7th at 7 am PT
I've just upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion and now I find that when I drag files in the finder from one window or folder to another, just to move them, the files automatically copy instead of relocate. I'm dragging with the standard left click on the mouse, and no option key. This is leaving me with duplicate files all over the place. How can I stop this from happening?
thanks,
Jack
Sounds like something in Finder is mucked up.
Go to your Finder "Go" menu hold the option key to choose "Library"
Then go to Preferences trash these files:
com.apple.finder.plist
com.apple.sidebarlists.plist
Then, restart, or log out and in again.
(You will have to reset a few finder prefs the way you like them.)
Sounds like something in Finder is mucked up.
Go to your Finder "Go" menu hold the option key to choose "Library"
Then go to Preferences trash these files:
com.apple.finder.plist
com.apple.sidebarlists.plist
Then, restart, or log out and in again.
(You will have to reset a few finder prefs the way you like them.)
Thank you. I'll give it a try.
Jack
Is more than one hard drive (or volume = partition of a hard drive) involved?
Yes, there are two partitions. One for booting up, which contains all the applications, and the other which is where all the files I work on are stored.
Jack
If the original location for a file is on one of the partitions and the destination folder is on the other partition, then copying the file is normal, intended behavior. By default, files are copied, not moved, between partitions or other volumes.
If this is the case, there is a solution - hold down the Command key while dragging the file, and it will be moved to the othr partition instead of just being copied to it.
Ah, well, that's probably it then. I often have more than one window open and there's no way to tell which volume the window is from. I think that's it. I'll have to make sure I know which one I'm dragging to in the future. Thanks for the Command key tip also.
thanks,
Jack
Why do files automatically copy when dragging?
