Re: Copy-Paste between filemanager and document editor

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

Ross Howard wrote:

> Microsoft seems to have keyboard techniques.. 
>> You can create a copy of a file and move it at the same time by pressing
>> CTRL while you drag the file to a new location.
> 
> What? so does it copy it or move it and then make a copy in the 
> same place is has moved it to?

Ctrl+drag on Windows just copies the file to the destination-- if you
cancel the operation halfway through (for big files, where you get the
chance), the incomplete copy is deleted, and you'll still have the
original file in the original location.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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