{"id":37323,"date":"2004-11-12T07:04:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-12T07:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2004\/11\/12\/will-dragging-a-file-result-in-a-move-or-a-copy\/"},"modified":"2004-11-12T07:04:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-12T07:04:00","slug":"will-dragging-a-file-result-in-a-move-or-a-copy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20041112-00\/?p=37323","title":{"rendered":"Will dragging a file result in a move or a copy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Some people are confused by the seemingly random behavior when you drag a file.  Do you get a move or a copy? <\/p>\n<p> And you&#8217;re right to be confused because it&#8217;s not obvious until you learn the secret. Mind you, this secret hasn&#8217;t changed since 1989, but an old secret is still a secret just the same. (Worse: An old secret is a compatibility constraint.) <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If Ctrl+Shift are held down, then the operation creates a shortcut. <\/li>\n<li>If Shift is held down, then the operation is a move. <\/li>\n<li>If Ctrl is held down, then the operation is a copy. <\/li>\n<li>If no modifiers are held down and the source and destination are     on the same drive, then the operation is a move. <\/li>\n<li>If no modifiers are held down and the source and destination are     on different drives, then the operation is a copy. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> This is one of the few places where the fact that there are things called &#8220;drives&#8221; makes itself known to the end user in a significant way. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people are confused by the seemingly random behavior when you drag a file. Do you get a move or a copy? And you&#8217;re right to be confused because it&#8217;s not obvious until you learn the secret. Mind you, this secret hasn&#8217;t changed since 1989, but an old secret is still a secret just the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-37323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-tipssupport"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Some people are confused by the seemingly random behavior when you drag a file. Do you get a move or a copy? And you&#8217;re right to be confused because it&#8217;s not obvious until you learn the secret. Mind you, this secret hasn&#8217;t changed since 1989, but an old secret is still a secret just the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}