Trick for moving a file in OS X from one mounted drive to another in one step Thursday, May 08, 2008

It always kind of bothered me that in OS X I couldn't choose to move a file from one location to another when the different locations were not on the same hard drive. For example from my hard drive to an external or network drive. If you drag, it copies, so you're left with the original to delete. For large files, I sometimes got in in the practice of using the command line wihich does have the ability:

mv foo.zip /Volumes/MyExternalDrive/

But this isn't very elegant.

I recently found a little Finder trick. If you hold down command while dragging, it moves the file instead of copying.

I'm happy now.