Hi, On the Mac, you will always do a four step operation when moving files between drives; first copy/paste, then move to trash/empty trash. This is to make sure you don't loose data if you should do a wrong keystroke or experience a power failure. Think about what will happen if you did a command-X and put your content in the clipboard, and then by mistake pressed command-X or command-C again when focused on something else before the content on the clipboard was pasted where you would like to store it.. It would be gone forever. ;-)
You might use an Automator workflow to move files (works like a script), or you can do it manually by first copy, then paste, then move the copied content to trash and empty the trash. HOpe this helps, John André On 16. apr. 2010, at 21.25, Courtney Curran wrote: > Hi, > I was wondering how I cut stuff on the Mack without leaving a copy. I heard > Command X, but that's not working. I want to free up some space on a flash > drive and move everything to my external hard drive. Any help would be > greatly appreciated. > Thanks, > Courtney > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
