At 03:37 PM -0800 11/15/2005, scott wrote:
I just put a second HD in our G4 400 that only has OS 9.2.2. In OSX
on my other G4,
you can Command + Drag folders into your storage drive and have them
move there, not copy.
It appears in OS 9 that there is no keyboard shortcut to move
folders into that drive.
They copy instead. Am I missing that in OS 9? Thanks!
"move"... is an artificial concept.
You can really only "move" a file from one folder (directory) to
another, on the *same* volume. That means the OS simply changes a
few pointers - the file's data (contents) is not touched.
If you "move" a file from one volume to another, then the file must
first be copied, then the original must be deleted. A two step
process.
The classic Mac OS doesn't automatically do that delete step for you,
mostly for safety reasons.
cmd-drag in OS X does the delete. That way you never get a chance to
verify that the copy was actually successful...
Guess if you're dying to have that "functionality" in the classic OS,
you could write a script...
- Dan.
Thanks, Dan,
I didn't realize that's how it worked. Why do you suppose Apple decided
to take the
"safety" off in OSX? Have you ever had a file not copy successfully?
Scott
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