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How do I change a drag and move command?
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<blockquote data-quote="toMACsh" data-source="post: 907717" data-attributes="member: 112842"><p>Ok, I get it. I've also learned something from you. I'm a late adopter of OSX, going from OS9.2 all the way to OS10.5! There is a change that I was not aware of.</p><p></p><p>If you're in your Home folder (the one with the little house) anything you drag to the Desktop seems to be preparing to Copy. (I didn't release the mouse button!) I did see the green circle with white plus sign, indicating a Copy was going to take place. I didn't see that every time, but I'm convinced it would have still copied the item. If I didn't see it, but dragged the item across another icon on the Desktop, the circle appeared. </p><p></p><p>So, apparently, the OS is set up to disallow Moving anything <strong>it created</strong> from your Home folder. (My lesson of the day!) Once you "drill down" into one of those folders, you may or may not (I haven't tried more folders) see the same behavior. I think it's likely you will not, but rather the behavior I've been describing as "normal". There might be other folders that disallow Moving. You might know better than I which ones they are.</p><p></p><p>Let me amend my story then. I bet that you will only get differing behaviors out of items <strong>from the same folder</strong> if the difference in the nature of the items is that you created it vs. creation by default at installation of the OS. </p><p></p><p>Getting back to your original question... You'd like them all to be the same, and not have to use the Option key. I don't think there is a way to make that happen. I looked for a setting in a System Preferences Pane and came up empty.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="toMACsh, post: 907717, member: 112842"] Ok, I get it. I've also learned something from you. I'm a late adopter of OSX, going from OS9.2 all the way to OS10.5! There is a change that I was not aware of. If you're in your Home folder (the one with the little house) anything you drag to the Desktop seems to be preparing to Copy. (I didn't release the mouse button!) I did see the green circle with white plus sign, indicating a Copy was going to take place. I didn't see that every time, but I'm convinced it would have still copied the item. If I didn't see it, but dragged the item across another icon on the Desktop, the circle appeared. So, apparently, the OS is set up to disallow Moving anything [B]it created[/B] from your Home folder. (My lesson of the day!) Once you "drill down" into one of those folders, you may or may not (I haven't tried more folders) see the same behavior. I think it's likely you will not, but rather the behavior I've been describing as "normal". There might be other folders that disallow Moving. You might know better than I which ones they are. Let me amend my story then. I bet that you will only get differing behaviors out of items [B]from the same folder[/B] if the difference in the nature of the items is that you created it vs. creation by default at installation of the OS. Getting back to your original question... You'd like them all to be the same, and not have to use the Option key. I don't think there is a way to make that happen. I looked for a setting in a System Preferences Pane and came up empty. [/QUOTE]
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