[nabs-l] Moving Files and folders on the Mac?

Ignasi Cambra ignasicambra at gmail.com
Tue Aug 2 09:17:22 UTC 2011


Hello,
You can use an apple script to move files. Basically make a script that will tell the terminal app to move a file to a target location, and assign a keystroke to it by using keyboard commander. Whenever you use your keystroke, you will be prompted to select a file and a location. I think someone made a script and put it online, but I'm not sure where it is. If you are using Lion you can just move files with standard OS X keystrokes. Command c to copy, and command option v to move whatever you copied.
On Aug 1, 2011, at 9:53 PM, Nallym Bravo wrote:

> Hi Nicole,
> If you're using OSx Lion, there's a new way to drag and drop files.
> Both the source and desired target  locations must be on the screen for this to work.
> First, mark the item(s) you want to move using VO keys plus comma. Navegat to the target location. To drop the files you can press vo keys plus shift plus comma to drop the items before the voiceover cursor, vo plus period to drop the item on the voiceover cursor, or vo keys plus shift plus period to drop the item after the cursor.
> 
> If you haven't upgraded yet, you can still drag and drop, but it's a little messier.
> Make sure that mouse tracking is turned on.
> 1. Move the voiceover cursor to the item you want to move.
> 2. Make sure that the mouse is locked by pressing vo command shift space.
> 3. Move the voiceover cursor to the desired location
> 4. Unlock the mouse by pressing vo command shift space.
> 
> Hope this helps. Good luck!
> 
> Nallym
> 
> On Jul 29, 2011, at 7:52 PM, Kimberly thurman wrote:
> 
>> NIcole,
>> 
>> You can't move files and folders in Snow Leopard on the Mac unless you use a program called Move Addict.  I think this is available in the app store.  I don't know much about it, because I don't use it.  I just copy the files, and then delete them from the folder I wanted to move them from.  I think this is a safe guard by Apple to keep folks from losing data.  
>> 
>> I do hear that you can move files in Lion though.  I have not upgraded to Lion yet.  To copy and paste you press command C and then command V to paste.  To move, you type command C to copy and command/option/V to paste.  The files will then be deleted from their original folder and be placed in the new one.  
>> 
>> hth
>> On Jul 29, 2011, at 2:33 PM, Nicole Torcolini at Home wrote:
>> 
>>> I know that this is a rather silly question, but how do you move files and folders on the Mac? The cut menu item is not available.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Nicole
>>> 
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