Hi Marcus, Drag & drop always moves the file, rather than copying, unless you are dragging to another disk or volume when it does copy the file to the other disk/volume and leaves the original where it is. As Mike says, if you want to copy the file to another location on the same disk/volume hold down the option key while you drag the file.
Remember that ³Dropbox² is an actual folder on your computer this is the folder that Dropbox keeps in synch, through the cloud, with your other computers. So if you copy the file from your documents folder to the dropbox folder (rather than moving it) you will then have two instances of the file on your computer. Now you MAY want this, eg to keep an archive version, or a temporary work version, in your documents folder, BUT you then need to be very careful which version you work on! Any modifications to the file in your documents folder will not be reflected in the dropbox version (on your computer, other computers or in the cloud) and vice versa. Similarly if you continue to work on your dropbox version, the version in your documents folder will be out of date. As I say, you may have a good reason to keep different versions of the file on your computer but, if it was me, to avoid confusion (or accidentally working on the wrong version) I would name the files differently eg add a suffix to reflect the status of the particular version could be temp or archive or as simple as a rev indicator: 1, 2, 3 or a, b, c. Just a thought. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 19/1/16 11:28, Mike Murray at mdmur...@bigpond.net.au wrote: > Hi Marcus > Hold down the option key while you drag the file. That copies rather than > moves it. > Cheers > Mike > > > Mike Murray and Lesley Silvester > > TimeTrackers > > PO Box 197 > > Melville, 6956 > > Western Australia > > > > Tel 08 9339 8078 > > Mob 0407 669 376 > > > > British and Australian genealogical and historical research, > > education, publishing and film-making > > > > www.timetrackers.com.au <http://www.timetrackers.com.au> > > > > > >> On 19 Jan 2016, at 11:20 am, Marcus F Harris <cryptodo...@me.com> wrote: >> >> I have a Dropbox (tm) account. Version 3.12.5 >> My questions to WAMUG for help are >> Why does ³drop and drag² of files from Documents to Drop Box actually move >> that file rather than copy it? >> Is there a keyboard command to avoid this? >> regrads >> Marcus >> Marcus Harris >> P.O. Box 7135 >> Marcus Harris >> Shenton Park >> Western Australia 6008 >> Australia >> Cryptodome Pty Ltd >> cryptodo...@me.com >> Mob: +61 (0) 417965618 >> >> iMac 27D Late 2009 >> OS10.9.5 >> 3 GHz Intel Duo Core >> 8Gb Ram >> >>
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