How to paste a folder into a different folder?

I'm not sure what you believe is consistent about Windows. I can't do anything on it consistently. I'm constantly trying to do something, then have to remember, "no dummy, you have to do it the Windows way. Take twelve steps back and start again."

I use what works. I don't try to make a broken OS Ok to use, and cripple my use of a well-designed OS.

Copy, open a folder, paste is a stupid, time wasting endeavor when I can drag and drop. The opposite is true on Windows, but that's only because drag and drop is almost useless. I can drag and drop all over the Mac OS, within Apps, from App to Finder, and from Finder to app. It's a crap shoot as to what might happen on Windows.

Finding a file in a window only takes me typing a couple of letters on my Mac. On windows, the first hit is a folder. Then if I start over, it might get down to the files. If I am in a list in an App, the selection bounces around from one letter to the next instead of matching the item to what letters I type. So, if I am in Windows Explorer, it does one thing, but in an App it does something entirely different. That's some pretty freakin' awesome consistency.

If I just scroll through the list looking for a file, I get to the end of the alphabet and didn't find what i thought existed. Oh, jeez, that was only the end of the folders. Why is it so confusing to use? Oh yeah, I have to change how I search for something in a list. First, I have to exclude all of the folders, then look for the name of the item I want. Why can't I just consistently look for the item by name.

If I'm looking for FileName10 it shows up before FileName2. What kind of sense does that make. I can't work the same way on both OS's because Windows doesn't know how to sequentially order file names.

It is much better to use each OS effectively, not use them both in some cohesive but inefficient fashion.

If you want to use your Mac instead of fight with it, learn to use it.

LesMikesell wrote:

Yeah, it is so much fun when you want to edit a file in an app folder that you can't just navigate through the files they are, you have to go to the application name, then control-click and say 'open package contents'. Why did it think I was navigating there if I didn't want to open it? Yeah, that makes sense.

Huh? All you do to edit a file is double click on it and the appropriate app will open the file. There's no reason to look at an app's content to edit a file. lol

LesMikesell wrote:

The thing I was remembering doing was adding a new device profile to the serviio dlna server where you had to edit an xml file inside the package. But that was a few OSX, and serviio versions ago. Now it seems to be elsewhere, so not even consistently weird.

That's called "hacking" the app. It shouldn't be necessary, but it can be useful at times. The developer should have provided that functionality outside the app package if they intended it to be editable. The App should provide an interface for editing the configuration files which would be stored in your Library, most commonly inside Application Support.

But, hey, you can probably do the same thing in Windows by entering cryptic phrases into bizarrely named entries in the Registry.

Command-clicking the folder deselects it.

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FWIW, what I described works just fine in List View.

Neat trick. Seems to override the target, but I suppose that would make sense for a contextual menu.

Indeed.

SORRY,

It would still be the same thing

You PASTE into the folder through the LIST

LOL

Try pasting a new folder inside your "untitled folder" while in list view.

::SMH::