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NewBizOwner
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3 years ago

Drag/Drop into Subfolder Forcing Copies Instead of Moving

In trying to do some housekeeping in a dropbox folder to move all of the old versions of a document into a subfolder called "Archive" (located within the same original folder), MacOS/Dropbox is forci...
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3 years ago
NewBizOwner wrote:

MacOS/Dropbox is forcing all versions to be copied into the Archive subfolder instead of moving them the way it always used to.

Dropbox has no control over whether a file is copied or moved during a drag and drop process. Your operating system controls that. Typically though, it depends on the location you're dragging a file to. Under normal circumstances, dragging a file to a folder on the same drive results in a move, while dragging a file to a folder on a different drive results in a copy. This behavior is usually altered during the drag using modifier keys. I'm not familiar with Mac, but on a PC holding CTRL forces a copy while holding Shift forces a move.

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