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You can use the Forward and Backward buttons here. Now here's one most people even experts don't even know. You can drag and drop into anyone of these to put it in one of the levels above the current folder.

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You'll see the full path down here below. But I can go to View, then Show Path Bar. I can't, while dragging, do anything here to move up. Let's say I want to move this file up two levels. I can Command click here and see how deep I am in the folder structure. So what happens if you're in a folder and you want to move the file to a folder above it. You drop it in there and the file then goes into that folder. Drop it in and then you can use that as a place to drop files. Likewise if you have a folder you're commonly moving things to you can drag and drop the folder to the right side of the Dock here. So I can take a file like this and drop it into one of these folders here without ever having to actually view the destination. But you can also use them as a way to drop files. One reason people do that is to quickly navigate to those folders. All you need to do is take a folder and drag it over in there. You can add folders to your Favorites on the left. Here's some more straight forward ways to move files. Drag over here to the Tab and wait for it to load up. You can use Spring-loading for this as well. Now I've got the file I want to move here and I want to move it to the folder in this Tab here. In this Tab I can go to another location. Let's expand this window a little bit and then let's go and open up a new Tab.

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Now instead of having two windows open you can use Tabs. Spring-loading is particularly handy if you're in Icon View because there's no way to view the contents of this folder without hovering over it, waiting for Spring-loading to activate, and then you jump down into the folder there. So I can drag over to Temp and as soon as I'm over it hit the spacebar and it immediately jumps down into that folder. Now regardless of where you have it set Spring-loading can be sped up by the spacebar. You can set it from short to long or somewhere in the middle. The Preferences for Spring-loading can be found in System Preferences under Accessibility and then Pointer Control. Now I can see the contents inside of here and I can drag and drop into this folder. I hover over this folder and wait for a couple of seconds and then it will open up.

I can drag and drop that directly into that subfolder by simply opening up this folder here.īut I can also use spring loaded folders for this. Let's say I don't want to move it into the folder but I want to move it into a subfolder here. But let's say it's a little more complex than that. I can simply take this file and drop it in there. Like I want to move this file to this folder. Then I simply drag and drop from one window to another to move the file from one folder to the other folder.īut let's say I want to move this file to a folder I can see here in the other window. Now let's go to the Folder that I want to move the file to. Let's resize that so I can put it next to this window so I can see them both side-by-side. I can go to File, New Finder Window and I've got a second Finder window open. So here I have some files in a folder and I want to move a file from one folder to another. That is to simply drag and drop between two windows. So let's start off with the most straight forward method. Some of those are good for some situations and some are good for other situations. But there are actually a whole bunch of different ways to move files.

Now chances are when you need to move files on your Mac you use one method to do so. Join us and get exclusive content and course discounts. There you can read more about the Patreon Campaign. MacMost is brought to you thanks to a great group of more than 700 supporters. Let me show you ten different ways to move files on your Mac. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with. Check out 10 Different Ways To Move Files On a Mac at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.

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