When moving files between hard drives....

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...it really annoys me that the files copy, as in say dragging a folder z say from c to d, it will still leave a folder z on c after the dragging and dropping.

Does anyone know a setting which effectively cuts the files then pastes them?

Sorry if i didn't explain this properly but i hope someone knows what i mean.
 
timmins said:
...it really annoys me that the files copy, as in say dragging a folder z say from c to d, it will still leave a folder z on c after the dragging and dropping.

Does anyone know a setting which effectively cuts the files then pastes them?

Sorry if i didn't explain this properly but i hope someone knows what i mean.
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Yeah cut the said files and paste instead of copying
 
If your moving the folder and not copying it will remove the orginal. No idea why its doing that for you? What os?
 
if you drag and drop with the right mouse button you will get a choice as to copy or move the folder. Its the quickest way i can think of.
 
It only physically(erm magnetically) copies the file if you are moving between 2 HDDs or partitions otherwise it just moves the file location. Do what the above poster says.
 
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I think what he's after is a way of changing the default windows behaviour so that a drag-and-drop between drives will automatically do a move rather than copy.

I don't know of any... maybe there's some top secret reg setting for it :)
 
hold Shift when dragging across drives to move

what move does it copy, paste, delete (from source)



you can also, hold Ctrl to force a copy (works onto same drive) or hold Alt to create shortcuts :)
 
just using xp pro.

yeh it's fine when moving around in the same hard drive, but going from others. i dunno maybe i never noticed before, just thought this wasn't the norm but guess it is then boys.

cheers for the cut and paste option :o haha

really isnt the end of the world, just bugs me when i move my files around, then have to delete the source files. life goes on though eh boys.
 
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