You folks really ought to try the search function more often! :) http://groups.google.com/group/blacktree-quicksilver/search?hl=en_US&group=blacktree-quicksilver&q=move+to&qt_g=Search+this+group
And especially: http://groups.google.com/group/blacktree-quicksilver/browse_thread/thread/3df057ce5e2b59f8/369e6b2b814338a5?hl=en_US&lnk=gst&q=move+to#369e6b2b814338a5 "All of this has happened before, and all of it will happen again." On Nov 1, 12:02 pm, Tim Lawson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1 Nov 2011, at 14:53, Rob McBroom wrote: > > > On Nov 1, 2011, at 10:40 AM, Tim Lawson wrote: > > >> Nooooo!! Please keep the Finder way of always copying because although I > >> understand the frustration of some, I think the majority will likely be > >> confused if you were to make such a change and then you'd be fielding a > >> load of questions along the lines of"I didn't mean to move my file... > >> where's it gone?” > > > The copy action does what you want already, so I don’t see what you’d be > > losing. The move action doesn’t do what a lot of other people want it to > > do, so I can see what they’d gain. > > > If someone gets confused that a file has moved after they explicitly move > > it, ummm… ;-) > > Of course, I take your point - and I didn't really make myself clear. It's > just that when it comes to moving file(s) to a different volume, it copies, > not moves. That could, for some, perhaps be the confusing thing. This is > one of those instances where I feel it's important to look at things from the > end-user pov rather than as someone who is as close to what QS does as we may > be and there are plenty of people who don't get that moving to a different > volume using Finder requires holding down the Option key to 'not just copy'. > > >> Of course, if copying to a different volume using Finder, you can always > >> hold the option key down to force a move. Could QS be equipped with a > >> similar way of adding a modifier to achieve this? That'd be cool :-) > > > Choosing the move action instead of copy strikes me as the Quicksilver > > equivalent way to force a move. We could make them alternates for each > > other (where you’d hold ⌘ to reverse the behavior), but that might be > > confusing until we make alternates more discoverable. > > The whole thing is only an issue when a different volume is the target, as > I've said (apologies for repetition). How do you mean "reverse the > behaviour" in this instance? > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Rob McBroom > > <http://www.skurfer.com/>
