Drag and drop behaviour: copy or move

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Simicro
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Drag and drop behaviour: copy or move

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Hi,

When you drag and drop a file:
- between 2 folders of the same hard drive, then it is a "move" file
- between 2 folders on different hard drives then it is a "copy" file
That is for Windows Explorer.

Do you know the rationale behind that?

And for xplorer² Professional, it is the same.

Do you know a trick so that dragging and dropping a file always results in a "move"?
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Re: Drag and drop behaviour: copy or move

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Press the Shift key before you drop the file.
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Re: Drag and drop behaviour: copy or move

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Hi Robert,

Many thanks!
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Re: Drag and drop behaviour: copy or move

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see here for more options and explainers www.zabkat.com/blog/27Jul08-agile-drag-drop.htm
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Re: Drag and drop behaviour: copy or move

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Your blog's posts are very interesting, thank you Nikos!
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Re: Drag and drop behaviour: copy or move

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Robert2 wrote:Press the Shift key before you drop the file.
Or Drag file/folder with right mouse button down. When you Drop it at destination you'll be presented with a menu "Copy here, Move here, Create shortcut here, Cancel". 3rd party shell extensions may add further options, eg WinRAR has options to create an archive at the destination.

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Re: Drag and drop behaviour: copy or move

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RightPaddock, thanks for that great option!
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