Doris, what the desktop shows you is reality. If you see the files disappear in one window, but show up in another window, then the files were "moved". If you see the files in both windows after draging the files, then they were "copied". If you see the files completely disappear, then they were "deleted".
There might be a slight unintuitive behavior that is happening to confuse you. By default, any drag-n-drops for files/folders *within* the computer are "move" operations. However, any drag-n-drops for files/folders from one device to another (like your external drive), are "copy" operations. Try it out. Make a test file in Open Office with some gibberish and save it. Then play around with its icon by moving it to other folders to see what happens. You can open the windows of other folders by going to the "Places" menu in the top bar of your desktop. -- After upgrade to Karmic, CD/DVD drive no longer works https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/478962 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
