. Moving and Copying Icons In Mac OS X, there are two ways to move or copy icons from one place to another: by dragging them, or by using the Copy and Paste commands. . Copying by Dragging You can drag icons from one folder to another, from one drive to another, from a drive to a folder on another drive, and so on | . Moving and Copying Icons In Mac OS X there are two ways to move or copy icons from one place to another by dragging them or by using the Copy and Paste commands. . Copying by Dragging You can drag icons from one folder to another from one drive to another from a drive to a folder on another drive and so on. When you ve selected several icons drag any one of them the others tag along. While the Mac is copying you can tell that the process is still under way even if the progress bar is hidden behind a window because the icon of the copied material shows up dimmed in its new home darkening only when the copying process is over. You can also tell because Leopard s progress box is a lot clearer and prettier than it used to be. You can cancel the process by pressing either -period or the Esc key. Tip If you re copying files into a disk or folder that already contains items with the same names Mac OS X asks you individually about each one. An older item named Fiddlesticks with extension .doc already exists in this location. Note that thank heaven Mac OS X tells you whether the version you re replacing is older or newer than the one you re on Apply to all if all of the incoming icons should or should not replace the old ones of the same names. Then click Replace or Don t Replace as you see fit or Stop to halt the whole copying business. Understanding when the Mac copies a dragged icon and when it moves it bewilders many a beginner. However the scheme is fairly simple see Figure 2-5 when you consider the following Dragging from one folder to another on the same disk moves the icon. Dragging from one disk or disk partition to another copies the folder or file. You can drag icons either into an open window or directly onto a disk or folder icon. If you press the Option key as you release an icon you ve dragged you copy the icon instead of moving it. Doing so within a single folder produces a duplicate of the file called Whatever its name was copy. If you
