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Old January 11th 12, 10:22 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
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Default What setting to move a file/folder and delete at the same time -without having to cut/paste?

On Jan 5, 6:58*pm, "Tim Meddick" wrote:
Either [right-click-and-drag] the object from one folder to another to get
a short menu on releasing the mouse button, that asks if you want to :

Move to here
Copy to here
Create a shortcut here
Cancel

...or, while you "drag and drop" (with normal left-click-and-hold) Also
press and hold the following key while dragging and dropping for the
following results :

Hold While Dragging :

[Ctrl] *= *To COPY source
[Alt] * = *To create SHORTCUT of source
[Shift] = *To MOVE source

But there is no setting to control the default behaviour, which differs
with types of file / attributes and file permissions / different media...

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Cheers, * *Tim Meddick, * *Peckham, London. * *:-)



Thanks to you and all others. Apparently what I was observing where it
does this automatically is when I was dragging from one location on
the same drive to another, when doing that it deletes the file from
the old location. Doesn't do this when dragging across drives.


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