Technical information
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Moving the mouse drags the file along with it, and
Windows 8 explains that you’re moving the file.
As shown in Figure 3-7, the Traveler file is being
dragged from the House folder to the Morocco
folder.
Figure 3-7: To move an item, drag it while holding down the
right mouse button.
Always drag icons while holding down the
right mouse button. Windows 8 is then gra-
cious enough to give you a menu of options
when you position the icon, and you can
choose to copy, move, or create a shortcut.
Ifyou hold down the left mouse button,
Windows 8 sometimes doesn’t know whether
you want to copy or move.
4. Release the mouse button and choose Copy
Here, Move Here, or Create Shortcuts Here from
the pop-up menu.
When dragging and dropping takes too much work,
Windows offers a few other ways to copy or move files.
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