Hi Alex and Others, If you want to cut and paste files and folders with Command-x and Command-V, the moveAddict software I mentioned in my reply is on sale at the Mac App Store for $1.99 today as part of a developer promotion called "Two Dollar Tuesday". While this app was introduced before the ability to cut and paste files arrived in Lion, moveAddict does also have another feature: "Merge folders. While moving files, if moveAddict detects that you are trying to replace a folder, it lets you choose whether you want to completely replace the folder or merge the two."
This application is normally $7.99, but is $1.99 today. Here's the link to this version in the Mac App Store: • moveAddict by Kapeli http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/moveaddict/id404213171?ls=1&mt=12 There's also a free, lite version that works only on single files: • moveAddict Lite http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/moveaddict-lite/id418870366?s=1&mt=12 HTH. Cheers, Esther On Aug 18, 2012, at 18:41, Esther wrote: > 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 [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.
