Depending on the type of an object, a variety of operations can be performed on it, either with the use of a dialog window or via drag and drop with the mouse. If you do not hold down any of the Shift or Ctrl keys while dragging, a default operation will be performed that depends on the source and the target of the operation. For example, when you drag between folders, in most cases, objects will be moved by default. However, if you drag to the Desktop, by default the system creates shadows. Finally, if you drag program files, by default the system creates &link_progobjs; for them.

Remarks:

  1. If you copy or move an entire folder, all of its contents, including all subfolders, will also be copied or moved. Be aware that such an operation can take a long time, depending on the number of bytes that have to be physically copied between drives. However, moving files between folders on the same drive is generally very fast because the file system can usually just update directory information instead of physically moving data.

    Also make sure that there is enough free space on the target drive to hold the entire folder tree. You can use Treesize to find out how much space an entire folder hierarchy takes.

  2. Copying or moving a shadow does not copy or move the original object, but the shadow only.

  3. If you are moving files between different drives, be aware that there might be file-system restrictions. See "Restrictions when copying and moving files" for details.
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