Comment by 🚀 stack
Re: "Copying actually moves files"
2 hours and still going
Feb 25 · 2 months ago
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🗡️ 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?