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Files copy not Move between folders!?
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when I click and drag the files COPY instead of move. They're on the same drive (external FW). When I do this same action with files on the internal drive it moves properly.
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see if you have the rights to the folder where they are being copied from. if you don't have enough rights to delete the files out of that folder then they have to be copied, since you are not allowed to move them.
get info the folder and see who owns it and your rights.
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Is there something resting on the option key, or is it malfunctioning?
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Originally Posted by tiffer17
Is there something resting on the option key, or is it malfunctioning?
No, because it works on the local drive
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this will happen if you don't have permission to delete the file from the source folder.
Is that the case here?
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signatures are a waste of bandwidth
especially ones with political tripe in them.
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Are you dragging between partitions?
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When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. -- Jonathan Swift.
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Originally Posted by Kristoff
this will happen if you don't have permission to delete the file from the source folder.
Is that the case here?
This sounds like the likely culprit. When you move a file, you're actually copying the it and then deleting the old file. If you can't delete the file, then the copy part can still take place.
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You are in Soviet Russia. It is dark. Grue is likely to be eaten by YOU!
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Originally Posted by Millennium
This sounds like the likely culprit. When you move a file, you're actually copying the it and then deleting the old file. If you can't delete the file, then the copy part can still take place.
Not exactly (that would be pretty inefficent), but the end result is the same in this case.
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I actually have changed permissions a number of times. It's now become somewhat inconsistant. Basically what I'm trying to do is move individual files out of their enclosing folder and into the higher directory. I've got 30 or so folders with 2 to 4 files in each. If I try and drag them out once, they COPY. Now if I go and check permission on the DRIVE and say apply to enclosed items THAT folder's files will now MOVE. Now I go to the next folder. This one now copies. Cancel copy and check permissions. Try again and NOW they MOVE. About a forth of the folder contents MOVE the first time while other still copy. I just gave up and copied then deleted the old folder.
Wierd
Tim
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Get info on the Firewire drive and check "Ignore permissions on this volume".
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