Thanks to all that responded. I am using Lion and that worked perfectly! On 9 Feb 2012, at 11:46, Paul Erkens wrote:
> Hi Mark, > Are you using snow leopard or do you have Lion? > If you have snow leopard on your mac, then there is a program called move > addict, that you can buy for 7 or so dollars. Using it, you can move one or > more files and or folders over to a new location. > Now if you are using Lion, then you don't need move addict. Instead, the > functionality you want, moving files, rather than doing a copy and then a > delete, is built in to Lion. First go to your file to be moved, or a folder > for that matter, and hit command c as usual. Go to the new location inside > your new folder, and instead of hitting command v, now hit command option v. > And your files will be moved, so they won't be present any longer in the > source location. Is that what you want? Hth. > Paul. > > On Feb 9, 2012, at 7:37 PM, Marc wrote: > >> In my documents folder, I would like to create new folders. I figured >> out how to create and name new folders. Now I would like to move the >> documents into folders. As far as I can tell, I can copy and paste the >> documents into the new folder but the document remains in the >> documents folder. Does anybody have any suggestions so that I don't >> need to delete the file from the documents folder after I have moved >> it? >> Thanks >> >> -- >> 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.
