Hi Gigi, Thanks so much for your reply. I'm glad it isn't just me that is having problems with the drag and drop. I only made it work a couple of times; but, when I couldn't make it consistently work, I was disappointed.
I'll do the copy and move commands you suggested in your post. I do have some folder organization to take care of as well. Kind Regards, Kim Ellsworth On Jan 15, 2012, at 1:40 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > Hi Kim. > I saw you got an answer to your question, but I would like to add something. > One of the frustrating things about the drag and drop feature is that the > reason it doesn't work reliably is that things go off the screen and we don't > know about it. I finally just started using the thing Ray told you to do. > > I don't remember if he told about the move command, which I find works better > than the drag and drop. After you have done control c for copy, if you to > move things like files instead of just copy them, you can press option, > command, v for moving it. I have found that sometimes you have to interact > with the browser or open a folder you want to move to. Therefore, I have > started checking to make sure things got moved to where I thought they were > supposed to go. > > Regards, > Gigi > > On Jan 15, 2012, at 9:43 AM, Kim Ellsworth wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I am using a MacBook Air running Lion. My husband gave it to me for >> Christmas; and, I love it. I've been reading Help tutorials and I often >> refer to the keyboard help as well. Thus, hopefully I won't need to ask a >> lot of basic questions that have already been asked before. LOL >> >> There is, however, an action that I am unable to make work for me. I'm sure >> there is an easy way to accomplish what I want; but, I'm just missing >> something. Using my address book, I've entered in all of my contacts. >> Because I have this need to always keep everything categorized, I've created >> several groups and hope to be able to organize my contacts into them. I >> tried using the drag and drop commands; however, I get the message that the >> item I marked for dragging is no longer visible. Thus, in short, how do I >> drag my contacts from the "all contacts" area over into the various groups >> I've created? >> >> Any help would be appreciated. Have a great day all. >> >> Kind Regards, >> Kim Ellsworth >> >> -- >> 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. > -- 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.
