If you select some items in Finder and want to move them to another location, you will find that the Cut menu item under Edit is not available (see Figure A).
Figure A
Because the Cut is only for cutting the filename while you’re editing it. So how to move some items from one location to another in Finder? It’s easy, just hold down the Command key while dragging the items with your mouse. That’s all.
By default, dragging items from one location to another in Finder means that they’re being moved if the volume of the new location is the same as the volume of the orginal location. If the volumes of the new location and the original one are not the same, the items are being copied while dragging.
Furthermore, Apple’s document says that dragging items with Option held down will copy those items to the new location. And dragging items with Option and Command held down will make alias in the new location.
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