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> This isn't just a default setting; they removed file-cutting from the OS. They didn't remove anything. No version of Mac OS ever applied the cut-paste metap
by msbarnett 11y ago
> This isn't just a default setting; they removed file-cutting from the OS.
They didn't remove anything. No version of Mac OS ever applied the cut-paste metaphor to the filesystem, going all the way back to 1984.
It's a Windows concept.
- karlshea 11y agoCmd-C and Cmd-Opt-V copy and move a file for me just fine in El Cap.
- drauh 11y agoRight, but the Finder does have Copy and Paste. Cmd-C and Cmd-V have worked in the Finder since the very first Mac. It's even in the edit menu. I suppose they expect you to click and drag to move a file, rather than the slightly unintuitive Cut and Paste on entire files. There's no real physical analogy for a cut.
- projct 11y agocmd-opt-v...
- PhasmaFelis 11y agoAll right. Refusing to implement a useful feature for anyone because it's deemed too confusing for novices isn't any better than removing a useful feature because etc., though. (The recent addition of a special hotkey to paste-with-delete is not much of an improvement, since it still obfuscates the actual, expected behavior (of Ctrl-X) in favor of a different, more obscure, but notionally "friendlier" alternative.)