Interviewed by CNN on 13/01/2013 04:06, Paul B. Gallagher told the world: > Of course, on Windows systems, at least those of recent vintage, an > order to move a file or folder between different drives or computers is > realized as a copy anyway.
It has been that way for a long time... but it's not *quite* as you put it: it's not "moving" a file, it's "dragging & dropping" a file. It's actually a bit annoying because the behaviour ends up being inconsistent -- depending on the exact circumstances, dragging & dropping a file will result in different events. - Drag to another folder in the same drive: MOVE - Drag to a different drive: COPY It used to be worse -- in older Windows versions (I can't recall exactly when, but it may have been in the old Win9x variant), if you dragged a *program* file to another folder, it would create a shortcut instead of copying or moving. I got into the habit of always dragging with the right mouse button -- that way, when I drop the file, a pop-up opens asking me exactly what I want to do. Which is useful, because in my case, there are even more choices -- I use Herman Schinagl' Hardlink Shell Extension, so I also have options for creating hardlinks, symlinks and such. For the interested: <http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext.html> -- MCBastos This message has been protected with the 2ROT13 algorithm. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted under the DMCA. -=-=- ... Sent from my Casio DataMemo. * Added by TagZilla 0.7a1 running on Seamonkey 2.15 * Get it at http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmailnews.html#tagzilla _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
