Moving files on Mac OS X correctly
One of the “Top 10″ in recurring themes that people often ask when it lands for the first time on Mac OS X is: “How do I move files from one place to another without having to copy, paste and delete the original?”.
Is for whatever reason, menus edition of our operating system lacks the item “Move” or “Move”, and I think that has not been much talk about it, so people tend to think that on the Mac, things can not move, as is done in other systems.
In this post, especially geared for Switchers (and some veteran confused), we will see how to move files from the simplest way possible. The basics you need to know is that to do so, we must press the “cmd” (which was formerly the “Manzanita”) before clicking a file.
Without releasing the mouse button, we can move this file to any path to the operating system, which it immediately “move”. Normally we use this option to move large numbers of files or large files between different units. With this we managed not to be awaiting the end of a “copy and paste” and then delete the originals.
To move multiple files at once, we have to be careful when you click the last item is deselected or the whole group. To hit the first, a select group (you can mark the first and last item holding “shift”), but before dialing the last click “cmd” and when pinchéis in the file, not soltéis the mouse button.
In this way, we will move the entire selection of a sudden, something extremely useful to free up space on our hard drives to spend a significant amount of files to an external hard drive, for example.
Using smart folders to facilitate transport
One of the “tricks” that I use regularly with soil that is the use of smart folders. I think it’s something that we do not use maqueros enough, and you can achieve great things with them.
On the smart folders can discuss many things (will be the subject of another entry), but the basic thing that we can use to move files is to label what we want to move to a “tag” of color:
