Nice OSX trick

[muscleandhate]

What annoyed me about OSX was the way if you attempted to drag stuff to somewhere else, it would leave the original copy. Well next time you drag stuff around and don't want it copied, just moved, hold the command key down and OSX automatically removes the original. Not sure if this is common knowledge, but I just found this out.

[stale bread]

nice, if you got some more post'em up

[kabuki]

What annoyed me about OSX was the way if you attempted to drag stuff to somewhere else, it would leave the original copy. Well next time you drag stuff around and don't want it copied, just moved, hold the command key down and OSX automatically removes the original. Not sure if this is common knowledge, but I just found this out.

Actually, unless you are talking about putting something on an external volume, OSX does this without an additional keypress. To make a copy on the same volume, Click, Option, drag to make a copy and leave the original.

Maybe you have a setting turned on somewhere, but in my 12 plus years on Macs, I have never seen one do what you are describing. Unless you are talking about transferring to a different volume.

[Daim]

where's the trick? that's part of the manual

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75459

[muscleandhate]

What annoyed me about OSX was the way if you attempted to drag stuff to somewhere else, it would leave the original copy. Well next time you drag stuff around and don't want it copied, just moved, hold the command key down and OSX automatically removes the original. Not sure if this is common knowledge, but I just found this out.

Actually, unless you are talking about putting something on an external volume, OSX does this without an additional keypress. To make a copy on the same volume, Click, Option, drag to make a copy and leave the original.

Maybe you have a setting turned on somewhere, but in my 12 plus years on Macs, I have never seen one do what you are describing. Unless you are talking about transferring to a different volume.

Yeah sorry I should have mentioned that.

Ctrl + Option + Apple + 8

Inverts the screen, looks cool.

Also, if you have a few windows up, holding down the apple key enables you do drag them around without bringing them to the front.

Another one I completely missed, was in Expose, pressing the tab key will cycle through the different windows, bringing them to the front.

[Machinate]

What annoyed me about OSX was the way if you attempted to drag stuff to somewhere else, it would leave the original copy. Well next time you drag stuff around and don't want it copied, just moved, hold the command key down and OSX automatically removes the original. Not sure if this is common knowledge, but I just found this out.

windows does this too, and has done since forever.

[muscleandhate]

What annoyed me about OSX was the way if you attempted to drag stuff to somewhere else, it would leave the original copy. Well next time you drag stuff around and don't want it copied, just moved, hold the command key down and OSX automatically removes the original. Not sure if this is common knowledge, but I just found this out.

windows does this too, and has done since forever.

So? lol

[djmyke]

What annoyed me about OSX was the way if you attempted to drag stuff to somewhere else, it would leave the original copy. Well next time you drag stuff around and don't want it copied, just moved, hold the command key down and OSX automatically removes the original. Not sure if this is common knowledge, but I just found this out.

windows does this too, and has done since forever.

again n again?


1-0 ?

[SubFunk]

nice, if you got some more post'em up

just go to the apple website there are hundreds of those kind of OSX tips - how to use it indepth.

very handy to get all power out of OSX.

http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/alias.html

for example...

[noborders]

What annoyed me about OSX was the way if you attempted to drag stuff to somewhere else, it would leave the original copy.

No it doesn't. Files are only copied if you drag stuff into another hard drive.

[Atomikat]

where's the trick? that's part of the manual

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75459

But nobody here RTFM...

[mike holiday]

What annoyed me about OSX was the way if you attempted to drag stuff to somewhere else, it would leave the original copy. Well next time you drag stuff around and don't want it copied, just moved, hold the command key down and OSX automatically removes the original. Not sure if this is common knowledge, but I just found this out.

windows does this too, and has done since forever.

again n again?


1-0 ?

0-100 old news for osx as well

[muscleandhate]

As a OSX n00b, this all seemed quite extraordinary!

[illsub1]

windows sucks! Viva la mac! I hope vista dies a vapourous death and osx reigns supreme! (oh wait, no I don't. Then the quality of mac hardware will become as shitty as the windows hardware!)

[chrisedmo]

My favourite is the old apple/command -tab to cycle through apps.. but this has been there since OS 9.. still great though.

The other one is when you are moving files into folders and stuff, whilst you are dragging into a folder, press space to open the folder, rather than waiting for the folder to open..