cut and paste option in finder - Mountain Lion

open finder,

select the files you want to Cut and Paste but selecting the first one then holding shift and selecting the last one, or clicking and highlighting the files or holding down the command key and selecting individual files.

now you can hit cmd X (cut) and then navigate to the new destination select the folder you want the content in and then hit cmd V (paste)

Another way you can do this is open two finder windows. one with the folder open with the contents you're trying to move, the other with the folder your moving the content to. highlight (like I told you before) the content you want to move, and then click and hold the click and then drag the files to the new folder and then let go, they should be moved to the new folder.

Most Apple retail stores offer a free workshop to get you started with using Mountain Lion and that is a perfect question to ask them once you setup an appointement with a genius. Ask your Apple Store if they offer said workshop. The ones around me do, even the non official, licensed Apple Specialist stores.

That's disabled for files and folders as a safety measure. You're supposed to drag the items.

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Just use Copy and Paste as you normally would. Only this time, hold down the option key and the Paste operation changes to a Move operation. This works from the top menu bar and from a context menu.

I guess I always drag and dropped, which I do describe in the second paragraph 😁 never realized the keyboard shorcut was disabled!

Copy your file > Go to the folder to which you want to transfer the file > Hold Option Key > Click Move Item Here 🙂

if you want to "cut" something - meaning you want to paste it, and delete the original do the following:

right click -> copy

go to where you want to paster and click cmd+option+v

Yeah, this annoyed me once I moved to a Mac also, but I can understand Apple's reasoning behind it.

Here's the solution...

Select the files to be copied, then copy them as per usual (Command+C, select 'Copy' from context menu, etc.) NOTE: Context menu = Menu that appears when you Control+Click (or right-click if enabled)

I've had issues whilst MOVING files around and Finder crashes during the process.

This leads to issues where some items get moved to the new location, some don't, then its upto you to find out what was missed. Not ideal - better to copy first, then delete after.

DID YOU KNOW: When you select multiple files/folders in Finder, a new menu option appears in the context menu called 'New Folder with Selections'

I use this all the time.

I select the files/folders I want to move, select 'New Folder with Selections', name the new folder something meaningful, I then COPY & PASTE that folder. Once the copy process has been completed, then I feel safe to delete the folder and all its contents.

The benefit is that if Finder crashes, everything I wanted to move is still in one spot, and you can just start the copy process again and choose to merge the contents of the folders.

There are 3rd Party tools available, such as TotalFinder; which is pretty cool, but a little bit buggy when pressured.

Hope this helps and welcome to the Mac!

lfitz85's response is perfect. But it took me some time to follow that. Let me rephrase it - mainly aimed at people movng from windows to mac (as I understand from the subject "cut and paste) and who prefers mouse to keyboard shortcuts

In Mac it's Move (not cut and paste) and hence the action works slightly differently: Select a file in a folder you want to move. Use ⌘C (Copy) and then ⌥⌘V (Move)

Three year old post, but thanks for your help!