Hi Alex, In Lion and above cutting and pasting files is supported with the "move" option. You select your file or files, copy to clipboard with Command-C, then move them to a new location with Command-Option-V. For earlier version of Mac OS X, we used the "moveAddict" application, which did, indeed, use Command-X to cut and Command-V to paste. That's still an option if you want to purchase it from the Mac App Store. (There is also a free, lite version of moveAddict if you only want to move one file at a time.)
I should add that I haven't been using moveAddict in Lion -- only in Snow Leopard -- and I didn't purchase the version from the App Store. So I can't check directly on the App Store experience with this utility. (The developer set up a separate VoiceOver friendly installation that you could download from the web site). I'll paste in the description of pasting files from Mac OS X Hints (July 2011): Source: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=201107211337186 <begin quote> Lion introduces a long-requested 'copy and move' command in Finder, similar to 'cut and paste' in Windows Explorer. To move files in Finder first press Command+C to copy the selected files, then press Command+Option+V to move the copied files to the current folder. <end quote> HTH. Cheers, Esther On Aug 18, 2012, at 17:52, Alex Hall wrote: > Hi all, > I can copy and paste items just fine. Why, though, is cut (cmd-x) always > dimmed? I am on my mac partition, so it isn't anything with write permission. > This seems an odd feature to be lacking. Thanks. > > > Have a great day, -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
