Moving & Copying Items

In addition to moving icons around within a window or on the desktop (see Chapter 2), you can move or copy items to other locations on the same disk or to other disks by dragging them:

  • When you drag an item to a location on the same disk, the item is moved to that location.

  • When you drag an item to a location on another disk, the item is copied to that location.

  • When you hold down while dragging an item to a location on the same disk, the item is copied to that location.

The next few pages provide instructions for all of these techniques, as well as instructions for duplicating items.

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