![]() ![]() So I'll select the first one here, hold the Shift key down, and it will do the same thing. Then I'm dragging and dropping three items. So I can select one, hold the Command key down, and select another and another. ![]() You can also select multiple items to drag and drop. So I can put it into, say, this folder by dragging into there. You can also drag and drop to items on the left sidebar here. If you drag and drop and you pause over the folder it will actually open it up. So I can drag and drop into this old folder there. I can even drag and drop to a folder inside of here. If I want to move this image to this folder I can simply drag and drop it. ![]() For instance, here I am in the Finder and I have two Finder windows open showing different locations. Video Transcript: Now even if you're new to Mac you probably know that you can drag and drop things to move things around. I hope this tip on how to copy Mac files using drag and drop has been helpful. For more information on this topic, please see my How to copy files on Mac OS X tutorial.Check out A Beginner’s Guide to Drag and Drop On the Mac at YouTube for closed captioning and more options. This magic keystroke tells the Mac Finder that you want to perform a copy operation, and not a move.įortunately (on my MacBook Pro anyway) the key also has the characters "alt" on it, so I think of this as an alternate function, and it's not hard to remember. Luckily the answer is simple and reasonably easy to remember: When working with Mac OS X, to copy a file (or multiple files) from one Mac Finder folder to another, just hold down the key when dragging your files from one folder to another. ![]() How to copy files on Mac OS X using drag and drop Unfortunately that's not usually what I want to do usually I want to copy the file, which recently begged the question "How do I copy files when using drag and drop?" It turns out that when you drag and drop a file between two Finder windows on the same Mac OS X filesystem you end up moving the file. Mac drag and drop FAQ: How do I copy files on a Mac OS X system using drag and drop between one or more Mac Finder windows? Contact me at (al) at valleyprogramming (dot) com for details. Want to work together? Your business can now hire me (Alvin Alexander) for small Scala and Flutter side projects. ![]()
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