[muglo] Re: Odd Behavior - Moving Files

On 19-Jul-06, at 8:42 AM, Chris wrote:

> IIRC, the behaviour was the same in OS 9. If you dragged from one
> volume to another (or partition to partition), the file was copied;
> if you dragged between folders on the same volume or partition, the
> file was moved. Option-drag copied the file in OS9 and Cmd-Opt-drag
> created an alias. So no new tricks there.
> Chris
>
> On Jul 18, 2006, at 5:46 PM, Martin Albinger wrote:
>
>> As Tee mentioned in an earlier post I don't mind doing the delete
>> as it
>> is an extra confirmation that that is what I wanted to do.  Not quite
>> as intuitive as OS 9 was but hey I'm not too old to learn a new trick!


You are correct Chris.  I'm running 10.3.9 on an upgraded original G3 
with 3 partitions on an 80 GB drive.  I have an 8 GB limit on drive 
size in which OS X can reside and it must be the first partition.  My 
second partition is a direct copy of my old 40 GB OS 9 system to make 
life easier in case something goes/went wrong and the third partition 
is for all my other stuff e.g. iPhoto, iTunes to limit the amount of 
space taken on the 8 GB partition.  I had one catastrophic failure 
early on when OS X managed to get installed on the full 80 GB drive.  
It went about 3 weeks, I updated software and it crashed horribly.  
That was last June.  Since then with the partitioned drive it's been 
rock solid.  Perhaps one or two kernel panics.

In OS 9 I didn't need to move files between volumes that much but with 
OS X I do to keep my 8 GB partition lean.  Most of my program files are 
stored elsewhere.  I booted up another system I have with an external 
external scsi drive and as soon as I did I remembered the option-drag 
and command-control drag combinations.  For aliases in OS 9 I just used 
the command-M key combination, which now is minimize window :(


Martin

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