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Hi everyone.

This may be a bit clumsy to describe.

Some of my Macs have more than one internal hard drive. When dragging items from one drive to another the item is of course, copied rather than simply moved from point A to point B. This unwanted copying occurs even when moving items from a non-startup drive to the desktop. Duplicating and deleting items appearing has become tedious.

Is there a modifier key (or keys) that would prevent the copying, and allow a mere moving?

This act would almost be the opposite of holding the Option key when dragging an item on a single drive, when one does wish to make a duplicate.

Thanks in advance,

Mason
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There is no command that I know of, but how about writing an Applescript to
do this for you??

DaveK


on 12/15/00 7:25 AM, Mason Radkoff at mason@... wrote:

On Fri, 15 Dec 2000 10:25:40 -0500, Mason Radkoff <mason@...>
wrote:

Some of my Macs have more than one internal hard drive. When dragging
items from one drive to another the item is of course, copied rather
than simply moved from point A to point B. This unwanted copying
occurs even when moving items from a non-startup drive to the
desktop. Duplicating and deleting items appearing has become tedious.

Is there a modifier key (or keys) that would prevent the copying, and
allow a mere moving?

Not per se. You need to use something besides the Finder. An AppleScript
would probably suffice; something that works with contextual menus might be
the best. You would select a file, Control-Click it, and then pick the
option from the popup menu; it might be called "Just Move," for instance.
The script would then need to let you navigate to the folder you want to
move the file to. The great shareware application, FinderPop, already has
such an action built in along with dozens of others. Try finding it on
<> to get the latest version.
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