The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff

Jeroen W. Pluimers on .NET, C#, Delphi, databases, and personal interests

  • My badges

    Mastodon

  • Twitter Updates

  • My Flickr Stream

    20140508-Delphi-2007--Project-Options--Cannot-Edit-Application-Title-HelpFile-Icon-Theming20140430-Fiddler-Filter-Actions-Button-Run-Filterset-now20140424-VMware-Fusion-6.0.3.-no-reclaimable
    More Photos

  • Pages

  • All categories

  • Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

    Join 1,860 other subscribers
«
»

Cut and Paste Files & Folders in Mac OS X

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/18

Boy, I wish I had found this far earlier:

  • in Windows Explorer this is called cut & paste:
    Ctrl+X & Ctrl+V
  • in Mac OS X Finder this is called copy & move items here:
    Command+C & Command+Option+V

Cut and Paste Files & Folders in Mac OS X

Mac OS X Lion and beyond now have the long awaited “Cut and Paste” feature added to the OS X desktop and Finder …

Cutting & Pasting Files and Folders in OS X is Easy

Select files in the Finder, then combine a series of keyboard shortcuts as so:

  1. Command+C copies the files or documents, note they won’t be ‘cut’ yet
  2. Command+Option+V pastes the documents into the new location, cutting it from the prior locating and moving it to the new location

If you just hit Command+V you will only move a copy of the files into the new location, as in a true copy and paste, rather than a cut and paste function. Notice holding down the Option key also changes the menu text to show “Move Items Here” to further signify the difference.

This is a feature many Windows converts have been wanting for a long time…

This works the same within OS X Mountain Lion as well, and will likely continue as a feature in the future versions of the OS X desktop as well.

–jeroen

via: Cut and Paste Files & Folders in Mac OS X.

This entry was posted on 2014/04/18 at 06:00 and is filed under Apple, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, MacBook, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Power User. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

3 Responses to “Cut and Paste Files & Folders in Mac OS X”

  1. Keyboards, logo keys CUA and a some more history… « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff said

    2015/04/06 at 16:46

    […] CRConrad on Cut and Paste Files & Fold… […]

    Reply
  2. CRConrad's avatar

    CRConrad said

    2015/04/06 at 10:37

    Those items are of course not quite corresponding. Cut in OSX is Command-X; copy in Windows is Control-C.

    Their presence in Windows is a straight copy from Apple, from OSX’ predecessor Mac OS. Back in Windows 3.X days, Windows only had the CUA standard Ctrl-Insert, Shift-Delete, and Shift-Insert keystrokes. (At least as late as Windows 7, these still work.)

    Reply

Leave a reply to Keyboards, logo keys CUA and a some more history… « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff Cancel reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

«
»