Choosing the Default Action When Dragging a File to a Folder


  1. Posts : 513
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
       #1

    Choosing the Default Action When Dragging a File to a Folder


    When you drag a file to a folder with the mouse, if you are dragging with left button, in one computer it says, copy to "the destination folder", in another computer (one is Home Premium x64, the other is Ultimate x64) it says, again with the left button, move to "the destination Folder.

    Is it a difference between Home Premium and Ultimate?
    Can a user define which will be the default action when dragging a file to a folder?

    P.S. : I know that the right button gives the options to choose.
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  2. Posts : 5,642
    Windows 10 Pro (x64)
       #2

    You can pick the default action...kinda. You simply edit the desktop.ini file in that folder.

    Code:
    [.ShellClassInfo]
    DefaultDropEffect=#
    Replace "#" with one of these numbers:
    1 - Copy
    2 - Move
    4 - Create a shortcut

    Be default Windows copies to locations in a different partition and moves in the same partition.
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  3. Posts : 3,371
    W10 Pro desktop, W11 laptop, W11 Pro tablet (all 64-bit)
       #3

    What you are seeing may be different on the 2 machines not because of the OS version but by where the folders are on the machines. If you are dragging between 2 folders on the same drive, the default action is to "move". If you are dragging between 2 folders on different drives the default is to "copy".
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  4. Posts : 2,963
    Windows 7 Professional SP1 64-bit
       #4

    strollin is 99% right. A few times I've had the computer only copy to a folder on the same drive as the one it was already on. This mostly happens when doing so of the customizing stuff.
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  5. Posts : 565
    Windows 7 Home Premium x64
       #5

    IMAyNeed said:
    When you drag a file to a folder with the mouse, if you are dragging with left button, in one computer it says, copy to "the destination folder", in another computer (one is Home Premium x64, the other is Ultimate x64) it says, again with the left button, move to "the destination Folder.

    Is it a difference between Home Premium and Ultimate?
    Can a user define which will be the default action when dragging a file to a folder?

    P.S. : I know that the right button gives the options to choose.
    If it is going within the same volume then it is automatically a "Move". If it is going to a different volume then it is automatically a "Copy". If you want it to be a "Move" then press Shift while dragging and dropping. Not that hard.
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  6. Posts : 513
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
    Thread Starter
       #6

    I have one hard disk drive with different partitions so it must be when doing it from different partitions, the copy and move thing changes.

    Thank you guys.
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