Drag And Drop Woes

indyskyz · 3 Jun 2006 at 21:11

lo. chaps and chapets

having a general pc sort out today and came across an odd drag and drop issue

for example draging funnypic1.jpg in to the funny pic folder from the various photo folder it just makes a copy of funnypic1.jpg in the funny pic folder and leaves the original exactly wherer it was in the first place (anoying or what)

what i want to hapen is drag funnypic1 in to funny pic folder and it just be there nowhere else!!!!

i supose this is great if your electric goes just as jour about to move the most uberist owned pic you posess and loose it forever onoes

but its not for me HELP!!!!

eek please move me to the software section pronto ive made my self look an ass

Haircut · 3 Jun 2006 at 21:11

Hold down right mouse button while dragging and it gives you the option of moving the file, copying it or creating s shortcut.

indyskyz · 3 Jun 2006 at 21:13

^^^^ my hero

i thought i might have a seizure or something

dymetrie · 3 Jun 2006 at 21:23

were you copying accross drives (or partitions) mayhap?

indyskyz · 3 Jun 2006 at 21:28

urm....

yes still it realy shouldnt be that anoying should it BUT. i suppose partition/partition drive/drive is like draging files to a cd or floppy

dymetrie · 3 Jun 2006 at 21:30

indyskyz said:
urm....

aye pretty much how it works...

highlight->right click->cut->paste (in new location) works good

Pho · 3 Jun 2006 at 21:32

CTRL + X (cut)
CTRL + V (paste)

keyboard > mouse

dymetrie · 3 Jun 2006 at 21:36

Pho said:
CTRL + X (cut)
CTRL + V (paste)

keyboard > mouse

I was actually explaining in n00b...

indyskyz · 3 Jun 2006 at 21:48

hay im not noob

nub is the prefered terminology i know a lot just a few things that baffle me

i could go about my daily computing buissines without the use of a mouse witch it more than i could say about a lot of people

bledd · 3 Jun 2006 at 22:22

if you hold... (when dragging file / folder)

left shift forces move
left ctrl forces copy
left alt forces create shortcut

benjo plz. · 3 Jun 2006 at 22:23

bledd. said:
left shift forces move
left shift forces create shortcut

Buh?

bledd · 3 Jun 2006 at 22:25

Phnom_Penh said:
Buh?

try it..

drag a file and when still holding mouse, hold ALT, and it'll show a shortcut sign..

benjo plz. · 3 Jun 2006 at 22:26

bledd. said:
try it..

drag a file and when still holding mouse, hold ALT, and it'll show a shortcut sign..

read what you said then

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bledd · 3 Jun 2006 at 22:27

needed some punctuation, sorry

G-MAN2004 · 3 Jun 2006 at 22:28

Phnom_Penh said:
Buh?

That's what i'm thinking. He's put the same button for two different commands :confused:

benjo plz. · 3 Jun 2006 at 22:29

bledd. said:
needed some punctuation, sorry

bledd. said:
left shift forces move
left shift forces create shortcut

Looks more like you need a different word

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dymetrie · 3 Jun 2006 at 22:31

indyskyz said:
hay im not noob

nub is the prefered terminology i know a lot just a few things that baffle me

i could go about my daily computing buissines without the use of a mouse witch it more than i could say about a lot of people

would you prefer numpty?

it can be arranged

bledd · 3 Jun 2006 at 22:43

oops, changed now peeps

i edited my post too..