Lazy Louse

Friday, June 16, 2006

Copying and moving files with the mouse - Part I

Copy and moving files across folders and drives with the menu or keyboard is good, but it's even easier doing it with the mouse.

Just open 2 folders, the source and destination folders on your desktop. Then proceed to use the mouse to drag the file from the source to destination folder.

But it's sometimes confusing to a novice when the same dragging action yields different results, sometimes the file is copied, other times it's moved and gone from the source folder!

Why does this happpen?

Actually, the answer is simple, when you drag a file from folders which lies in different drives, you copy the file.

When the source and destination folder lies in the same drive, you move it.

To help you understand, I have created a demo on this, see the demo below.



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