Comment by 🚀 ingrix
Re: "Copying actually moves files"
I believe the graphical tools I have used would move the files when dragging between directories. That being said, I haven't used drag-and-drop for that sort of stuff in ages so I could be misremembering. Variability in stuff like this isn't unheard of, too. It just takes one random developer who thinks they know user behavior better than the last guy to silently change the behavior of a tool like that.
Feb 24 · 2 months ago
6 Later Comments ↓
👻 darkghost · Feb 24 at 22:11:
The convention holds for me so far.
🚀 stack [OP] · Feb 24 at 22:38:
I just got in shit with my spouse -- copying files from her old camera to my dying Linux laptop. Wiped the SD card in the process and then it ( the card) died so I can't put the images back. She has a Mac Mini (probably because I despise apple) so has no way to get her files. Trying to upload to Google to save my marriage.
The old laptop is hot enough to cook eggs on.
👻 darkghost · Feb 24 at 23:54:
Godspeed!
🚀 stack [OP] · Feb 25 at 00:06:
2 hours and still going
🗡️ The_Jackal · Feb 25 at 02:06:
@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.
🚀 stack [OP] · 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.
Original Post
Copying actually moves files — 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?