I am replying to myself on this old thread because I think I've finally figured out what's happening. It turns out that when Finder is in column view (which I always use), if you drag the filename, or the small file icon next to the filename, the behavior is as I would expect: move by default, press Option to make a copy. However, if you instead drag the large preview from the pane to the right of the selected file, it defaults to making a copy and there doesn't seem to be a way to move the file instead.
I checked this behavior on another machine running Snow Leopard and it behaves the same way. A 10.5 system behaves as I think it should - dragging the file preview works the same as dragging the filename. Thanks, Jim On Jan 7, 2010, at 10:57 AM, Jim Balhoff wrote: > Ever since I installed Snow Leopard, it seems like dragging a file from one > Finder window to another, to move a file to a new folder within the same > volume, often copies the file rather than moves it. In the past move was the > default, but you could hold down Option to make a copy. Is there a known > change in Snow Leopard that makes copy happen more often than before? It's > driving me crazy. > > The weird thing is it doesn't always happen. It just seems like I regularly > notice I made a copy rather than a move, without intending to. > > Thanks, > Jim > _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
