Comment by ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ The_Jackal

Re: "Copying actually moves files"

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@stack Damn, that sounds terrible. I actually can't remember if it was on Linux or Windows, but I swear I remember dragging and dropping copying or moving at one point and then doing the opposite. I'll have to see next time I use my laptop.

๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ The_Jackal

Feb 25 ยท 2 months ago

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๐Ÿš€ stack [OP] ยท Feb 25 at 03:15:

ok. safely backed up. But by the time I made a second backup to a USB stick, forgot and moved the files off the source drive. doink.

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๐Ÿš€ stack:

Copying actually moves files โ€” For decades of using various file managers, when dragging files or directories the default convention was to copy if moving to a different device and move when on the same drive. Suddenly I am finding source files disappearing when dragging across drives. Have you noticed that or am I going nuts?

๐Ÿ’ฌ 7 comments ยท Feb 24 ยท 2 months ago