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Hello there. I know this is a simple question. Am I missing something?
I'm quite new to the Mac scene, having a lot of PC experience. I bought my PowerBook last November. Obviously I'm very pleased with it and I hate Windows even more now.
But one thing I have a problem: Cutting and Pasting in OS X applications. I have no problem Copying and Pasting - that's as straightforward as in Windows. But what if, say I want to move lots of files from one directory to another within Finder?
Almost every time I try to cut and paste in Mac OS applications (i.e. with option-X or in an "edit" pull down menu), the option to cut is almost always grayed out. Why?
Is there a preference or clipboard setting somewhere where I can enable this? Or is the cut option only going to become more available when I upgrade to Tiger? I find it hard to believe that an option as basic as "Cut" is almost impossible to do in such a Utopian operating system as Mac OS.
Dragging is OK but gets very difficult to do when moving large amounts of items between directories. Obviously I can get around the problem by copying and pasting, then deleting the original data. But this gets incovenient when trying to move, for instance, large directories containing subdirectories.
If anyone can help with this question I would be very grateful...
I'm quite new to the Mac scene, having a lot of PC experience. I bought my PowerBook last November. Obviously I'm very pleased with it and I hate Windows even more now.
But one thing I have a problem: Cutting and Pasting in OS X applications. I have no problem Copying and Pasting - that's as straightforward as in Windows. But what if, say I want to move lots of files from one directory to another within Finder?
Almost every time I try to cut and paste in Mac OS applications (i.e. with option-X or in an "edit" pull down menu), the option to cut is almost always grayed out. Why?
Is there a preference or clipboard setting somewhere where I can enable this? Or is the cut option only going to become more available when I upgrade to Tiger? I find it hard to believe that an option as basic as "Cut" is almost impossible to do in such a Utopian operating system as Mac OS.
Dragging is OK but gets very difficult to do when moving large amounts of items between directories. Obviously I can get around the problem by copying and pasting, then deleting the original data. But this gets incovenient when trying to move, for instance, large directories containing subdirectories.
If anyone can help with this question I would be very grateful...