Does anyone here know a way of changing the way that drag and drop behaves in Explorer. Currently, if i drag and drop a file from one folder to another, as long as the 2 folders are on the same drive it will simply move the file. But if the 2 folders are on seperate drives (exaple, local drive and a pen drive) it will make a copy of the file before moving it, so i end up with a copy of the file in both folders.

What i want to do is have Explorer make a copy of the file before moving it no matter where the source and destination folders are, be they on the same drive or on seperate ones. Last night i had a dig around control panel and TweakUI to see if there was a setting but i couldnt find anything. I've had a dig through google as well, still nothing that looks like it will work.

A few days ago i managed to lose my photo's from my recent trip to NYC. I was going to resize them all to put oon my MP3 player so i simply dragged the folder to the desktop before using the Image Resizer Power Toy to do all the legwork for me. I forgot that when dragging and dropping soething to and from the same drive that Explorer simply moves that 'something' and doesn't copy it. I then ended up with all my photos that were taken at 3 Mega pixels at 320x240. Luckily I hadnt emptied the camera's card so i got them all back from there. I can imagine though in future that I'm going to make this mistake again and do something irreversible.

Sorry if I'm blabbering on. Epigs available if someone can give me a fix.

copy-to func :D

not drag-drop but ... its what you want :D

(yeah. idk how ... srry :p)

On vista this may help: http://www.petri.co.il/advanced_drag_and_drop_vista.htm
read that this can be set to always copy: http://www.mucommander.com/

MICk3Y Wrote:On vista this may help: http://www.petri.co.il/advanced_drag_and_drop_vista.htm
read that this can be set to always copy: http://www.mucommander.com/

I've had a read through the top one. Didn't know that holding CTRL (or katurl  as a friend of mine likes to call it) or shift made a difference. Thanks.

I can't be bothered to work out how many epigs you  deserve. How many do you want within reason?

none, i did this to help not for payment :)

PSPkiller Wrote:I can't be bothered to work out how many epigs you  deserve. How many do you want within reason?

ONE HUNDRED BAZZILLION!!!!!