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need help formatting drive
i installed a WD caviar 500gb today.
when booted up computer said it could not recognize this drive.
so i used disk utiliity to erase it and format Mac Extended.
everything seems fine, but if i drag a file onto the drive it copies onto it, it does not just move to it.
why is that? How can i fix it so that files will move to it instead of copying?
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When you drag files from one hard drive to another, it copies it. Macs have done this as long as I can remember. If you drag it into a folder on the same drive, it moves it. But from drive to drive…it copies.
If you no longer want the file on the main drive, simply drag it to the trash.
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that is lame. so there is no way around it???
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[mr_gfx] “that is lame. so there is no way around it???”
That’s the way all computers work as far as I can tell. Drag and drop a file from a Windows box and the same thing happens.
What’s so hard about this anyway? Drag a file then delete the original if you don’t want it anymore.
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LAME?
Have you ever used a computer before? All computers I can remember working with move the file only if it is on the same drive. If it is on a different drive, it copies the file…
Patrick
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There’s a unix command that you can type into the terminal. simply open up a terminal window and type: mv sourcefilename destinationfilename
You’ll need to include the full directory path in each filename.Arnie
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To move a file from one drive to another without copying just hold down the “command” key while dragging the file to the target drive.
From the Apple.com/support document “OS X Keyboard Shortcuts”:“Command-Drag Move to new location without copying”
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[mr_gfx] “that is lame.”
It is not lame it is SAFE if it wasn’t like this computers would get screwed up so fast and people would be loosing files left and right.
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And on the same drive, hold down option to copy. Works in just about ANY macintosh occurence. Including the timeline of course. But then everyone knew that. Right?
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A lot of us PC heads use the drag – right click to select for either copy or move.
Alan
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great thanks!@!!
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