Interesting find Jim. I've never really tried to drag the preview but now, as you say, it does make a copy rather than move.
That is quite a confusing UI. Good to know though (for power users who may not be so confused). Cheers, Ashley. On 17/06/2010, at 2:46 AM, Jim Balhoff wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
