[How to] Drop file on Tab: Move instead of Copy?

[binocular222]

As title say

[PeterH]

Right mouse?

[binocular222]

No option for left mouse?

[admin]

Hold SHIFT.

[bdeshi]

SHIFT = move, CTRL = copy, ALT / SHIFT+CTRL = shortcut
btw, WE has also had this for a long time.

[Stef123]

No option for left mouse?

An old wish of mine as well. For a die-hard keyboarder those occasional drag-operations always turn out a rather dragging experience. Right or left, what modifier keys to hold down....

Good thing XY has the confirm dialog as a safety net, a real boon, which led me to suggest this enhancement: Instead of the sleepwalker's OK and Cancel, the dialog could be revamped into a conscious decision helper:
Copy | Move | Cancel
3 Buttons instead of 2, but easy enough to click your way to success. On the first go-around, no need to cancel out and try again with Alt/Shift/right mouse whatever .......

[admin]

No option for left mouse?

An old wish of mine as well. For a die-hard keyboarder those occasional drag-operations always turn out a rather dragging experience. Right or left, what modifier keys to hold down....

Good thing XY has the confirm dialog as a safety net, a real boon, which led me to suggest this enhancement: Instead of the sleepwalker's OK and Cancel, the dialog could be revamped into a conscious decision helper:
Copy | Move | Cancel
3 Buttons instead of 2, but easy enough to click your way to success. On the first go-around, no need to cancel out and try again with Alt/Shift/right mouse whatever .......

SHIFT = move, CTRL = copy, ALT / SHIFT+CTRL = shortcut
Got it brain-wired since Win95.

Copy | Move | Cancel?
Hmm, I rather decide beforehand if I copy or move. Then I'm happy with just ENTER to mean OK.

[Stef123]

Copy | Move | Cancel?
Hmm, I rather decide beforehand if I copy or move. Then I'm happy with just ENTER to mean OK.

My suggestion was meant as an OPTION or tweak. An alternative to brain-wiring for the less daring among us. On rare occasions, when you're on the phone and can't use both hands to hold down modifier keys, it's distracting and not really a good time to run trial-and-error attempts.

Sure, the right-mouse drag - but I am not very apt at that, if not to say haptically impaired, the price you pay for favoring keys over mice. Anyway, no biggie, just thinking it were another chance to do things better than Windows, to save users some "what-the-heck-..???" aggravation after crashing the mouse-drag into table utensils.

[admin]

You really should practice right-mouse drag, it's worth the sweat...

[Stef123]

I am beginning to see what you mean, lots of options .....