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> Fine. That’s what dragging a file from one place to another generally does!

To me this is not fine. Usually dragging from a different device(USB Thumbdrive <-> hard drive, SD Card <-> Thumbdrive, ....) should copy the files, and the cloud should be considered as another device.

Could a Mac user confirm if this is the default behavior on Mac devices?




I can confirm that dragging between devices does 'copy' by default. And dragging from iCloud to local drive does 'move' by default.


In general 'modification' by default is bad.


It is what you expect on local drive. Windows do the same.


It is. That's why I quoted 'modification'. It's not a sensitive issue if it's easy to undo. Which is the case on a user selected files on a drive (unless it's between naive FS or sluggish drives). On a remote system, you'd have to reup the whole thing.


Dragging from Dropbox, One drive, hubic all act as a move, not copy.




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