Moving items instead of copying then when dragging between places?

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Where can i change this?

Say i have an item on my desktop, i select it and drag it to one of the folders in my folder tree but instead of the behavior i am used with Windows Explorer which is moving the file, Opus copies the file.

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By default, Opus does the same thing as File Explorer, which is "move if on the same drive, copy if on different drives".

If you want it to always move things, you can do that with a small change to the Drag & Drop event:

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Thank you Leo! you really helped me!

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EDIT: just copy seems to have work with shift + click too :slight_smile:

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Alternatively, you can instead drag-and-drop using the right mouse button: it'll display a small context menu which allows you to choose between the action being a copy or a move, amongst some other options.

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I have a memory trick for copy/move drag-and-drop using qualifier keys. This overrides the behavior whether it's the same drive or a different drive. This also works darn near anywhere. For example, I can use these methods to drag-and-drop text inside Word or other applications.

To move an item, I want to SHIFT it.

To Copy an item, I want to CTRL it.