Drag and drop .exe files in a catalog may give a missing exe

[Gmacri]

Hi

When I created a new catalog and added new .exe file with the drag & drop option of the icon, if we drop the .exe out of the new bar of the catalog (for some human error) the .exe is missing and I must to reinstall the respective program. This is very dangerous because the program in question must be reinstalled.

I hope this problem will be resolved.

Thank You

[surrender]

Hi!

If I understood correctly, you have the catalog and you created a new category (is that what you meant by saying "created a new catalog?"). Ok now, you drop an .exe from the list onto this new category. And you say the .exe in the list is missing.
This can only happen if you right-click drag & drop and choose move from the context menu or drag & drop holding shift on a folder (not category) in the catalog.

This is very dangerous because the program in question must be reinstalled.

It doesnt have to reinstalled, simply copy it back from the dropped folder on the catalog back to original location.

UPDATE:

You are right, sometimes simple drag & drop onto an existing folder in catalog cuts and pastes the .exe.
Well, interestingly in my case D&D .exe on any folder that belongs to C:\ cuts the .exe and D&D on other drives only copies .exe.

[admin]

When I created a new catalog and added new .exe file with the drag & drop option of the icon, if we drop the .exe out of the new bar of the catalog (for some human error) the .exe is missing and I must to reinstall the respective program.

I think I don't fully understand what you mean by "out of the new bar of the catalog". I guess you mean you drop into the wrong category?

Concerning "human error": that's a bug that I cannot solve.

Generally I'd highly recommend to do all drag'n'drop action using the right mouse button. That way you get a menu interface before anything happens, and you stay in full control.

Still, on a left-button-drag the shape of the mouse cursor tells you what sort of operation is about to happen on drop.
A "+" sign means: copy
A "-" sign means: move/cut (in Explorer and other file managers you simply get no "+" sign instead of a "-")

The general Windows default for drag'n'drop file operations is: move/cut when source and target are on the same drive, copy between different drives.
You can overwrite this default be holding Ctrl to force a Copy, or holding Shift to force a Move/Cut.

HTH
Don

UPDATE: I checked my claim above and saw it was not completely correct. So I quickly changed reality to make it correct:

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    * Catalog: when right-dragging items onto a Category (in order to 
      add them to that Category) you now get a popup menu before any action 
      happens. Before right-drag worked like left-drag: it simply did it 
      right away.

(You'll get that with the next upload)