Re: newbie: How do you copy files?
Re: newbie: How do you copy files?
- Subject: Re: newbie: How do you copy files?
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 11:13:49 -0700
On 8/28/02 3:52 AM, "Nigel Garvey" <email@hidden>
wrote:
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But in fact - unless this has changed in Mac OS X - 'move' and
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'duplicate' do exactly the same thing when the destination's another
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disk. When you 'move' a file around within the same volume, it actually
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stays exactly where it is on the disk. Only the disk catalogue is altered
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so that the file is now credited to a different folder. This isn't
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possible when you move the file to another disk. It has to be physically
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copied to that disk. The original is not then deleted from the source
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disk.
It's changed in OS X. 'move' moves to disk not copies (even though dragging
in the UI still does a copy). I guess it deletes the original. Very handy,
since you can refer to it as the same alias after it's moved, which means
you don't have all those problems waiting fro the Finder to rename the copy
as you do in OS 9. (I had to use Akua or Jon's back in 9 whenever I wanted
to do this.) It works very well in X.
--
Paul Berkowitz
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