Duplicating Windows Explorer

There are a number of ways;

you can go to the finder menu and open two finder windows and drag and drop from one to the other.

If it's something you do regularly you can set up an Automator workflow.

If you grab the files, then put the cursor on the Hard drive, that will open it and you can navigate to the folder whilst still holding the files.

If you grab the files in the finder and then hold the cursor over the home folder on the left of the finder (The sidebar) or one of the other folders, they will open and so will any other folders you hover over. If you want to go back to where you started without dropping the files, move the cursor into the window you have navigated to and then back into the sidebar (where home, applications, movies etc are) and you will be back in the folder you started from.

Try these out - they'll make more sense if you try it with one file.

Last tip, I find activating "hot corners" from system preferences to allow "see desktop" and "all applications" (I use opposite corners is really handy for dragging and dropping.

Hope that helps.

Best of luck

one more suggestion that i think Rajesh didn't mention....

if you are often moving images amongst some number of specific folders then:

open a finder window, navigate to the level just above one of these folders. then drag the folder's icon into the section on the left... it'll stick there. repeat.

now any and all of these folders are immediately accessible from any finder window.

cheers

PS for the example you give, if documents is on the left in the sidebar, grab the files, drag over documents and it will open up, drag to history, it will also open, then drag to recent and it will open and you can drop in there.

Also you can change the way you view files in the finder into columns so that you can drag and drop. Look at the three buttons next to the arrows. You can customise the bar by clicking view/customize from the menu.

Lastly - you can even drag a folder shortcut to the finder menu - just drag the folder there. To remove it you have to be in View/Customize.

In system preferences choose Dashboard and Expose.

If you click on the Finder icon on your dock (the smiley face) then the menu at the top will be the Finder Menu. Under File you will see New Finder Window.

Tip - all menus have the shortcuts next to the command - in this case CMD(Apple) + N will also give you a new finder window - but only when you are in the Finder - ie when The menu to the right of the blue Apple says Finder. If it says Safari - then the CMD + N will give you a new Safari window.

If you do this you will have two independent windows.

Hot Corners.
Not everybody likes these.

If you go to system preferences/Dashboard and Expose the first thing you will see is "hot corners"
I have the top right as Desktop and the bottom left as All windows.

I find this really useful when I have a number of windows open Grabbing a load of files or a url, moving the cursor to top right - I can drop to the desktop, moving to the bottom left, all the windows show up and I can hover over the one I want and drop in there.

I hope that helps.

Best of luck.

Cheers.

I use XFolders 1.2 for OS X.

Dave,
Also check out PathFinder its a shareware finder/explorer app that is pretty popular and has things like a stack where you can drop files and then go to another disk/folder and pop the files of the stack into the newly selected folder/ It also has many many ither features. I use this instead of Finder and find I've come to replace Finder with PF and for me its a "must have" app.
Its a UB app and you can finf it at .. http://www.cocoatech.com/

Check it out,
peter