Re:The new MacBook
by oneeyedpigeon on Tuesday March 10, 2015 @10:32AM
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OSX still doesn't have cut & paste for files, which is utterly ridiculous IMO. Keyboard support for Finder is all-round lacking.
The latest software has several deficiencies, but this isn't one of them.
Copy, then hold down the Option key while pasting, by keyboard or menu. In the Edit menu, "Paste Item" will change to "Move Item Here".
Even though it's not as discoverable as it should be, this is a well-reasoned UI move on Apple's part. Even on Windows, cut & paste has different semantics for files than for text, and this solution sidesteps the weird "cut-in-progress" mode and inability to paste again.
Re:The new MacBook
by oneeyedpigeon on Tuesday March 10, 2015 @04:53PM
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I stand informed. Thank you very much.
Hold Cmd when dragging and dropping to move files (i.e. 'Cut and paste', which is a daft name for it)
If the folder you're moving to isn't readily available just Cmd+N to open a new window, etc.
Re:The new MacBook
by hipertracker on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @08:03PM
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With XtraFinder it has cut & paste, and much more http://www.trankynam.com/xtrafinder/
System 7 (or 8, 9 for that matter), didn't have copy & paste. You could copy file names into SimpleText, for example, but you couldn't use it to manage files. Also, clicking anywhere outside a window would deselect every file you had carefully chosen, so dragging and dropping was a Zen exercise.
And there were invisible files, plenty actually. Like, the desktop for instance? An invisible folder. Or every single custom icon? An invisible "Icon\r" resource fork file. We inherited the invisible attribute in HFS+ from those days.
We did have a much simpler file system structure, and I miss that as well. I welcomed the column view, but the spatial Finder is indeed missed, though it still lives in a sense in iOS's springboard.