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Old January 11th 12, 10:38 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
Char Jackson
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Default What setting to move a file/folder and delete at the same time - without having to cut/paste?

On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:22:41 -0800 (PST), Doc
wrote:

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...

==

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.


That's normal.

As others have said, you can override that behavior by using the right
click menu. (See above.)

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