Drag file help!

[Tomple]

When i drag a file from my desktop to another folder it stays on the desktop
did happen on my other macs

help

 

[Hal Itosis]

When i drag a file from my desktop to another folder it stays on the desktop
did happen on my other macs

help

Assuming the target folder is not on another volume, then perhaps your desktop items have acquired an ACL (hopefully not by some inheritance mechanism).

This command would show us any ACLs on desktop items:

ls -lae ~/Desktop

And this one might could fix you up:

chmod -R -N ~/Desktop/*


One can only hope —if indeed an errant ACL is causing this —that it is in fact limited to desktop items. [further investigation could determine the status of the rest of your home folder... or you could just boot from the system OS install dvd and use the 'reset user ACLs and permissions' feature located in the reset password utility's area.]

 

[Tomple]

Thanks!
I will try when i get home

EDIT

Would resetting ACL's from the startupp disk require a backup or anything?

 

[Tomple]

EDIT

Shows

Atlas-Wegmans-iMac:~ Atlas$ ls -lae ~/Desktop
total 3840
drwx------+ 5 Atlas staff 170 Nov 6 12:29 .
0: group:everyone deny delete
drwxr-xr-x+ 31 Atlas staff 1054 Nov 1 14:00 ..
0: group:everyone deny delete
-rw-------@ 1 Atlas staff 24580 Nov 6 12:29 .DS_Store
-rw-r--r-- 1 Atlas staff 0 Sep 2 22:45 .localized
-rw-------@ 1 Atlas staff 1936756 Nov 6 12:28 Content.jpeg
Atlas-Wegmans-iMac:~ Atlas$

 

[Tomple]

triple post sorry

if i hold command and drag then the files leave my desktop
does this help?

 

[iThinkergoiMac]

If that's the case, the "folder" you're dragging it to is not on your internal drive. It's either an external drive or a network drive and it's copying to that drive as the default action.

If it is indeed on your internal drive, for some reason your computer is treating it as some kind of external location.

 

[Tomple]

My iMac has two drives
1tb and 256 ssd
the folder is located on the 1tb drive as there is no point in wasting the ssd's space on pictures

thanks for your response iThinkergoiMac
any way to change this behavior?

 

[Hal Itosis]

My iMac has two drives
1tb and 256 ssd
the folder is located on the 1tb drive as there is no point in wasting the ssd's space on pictures

thanks for your response iThinkergoiMac
any way to change this behavior?

It wouldn't make any sense to "change this behavior". Files dragged to-and-from different volumes should copy by default. You could however change your workflow pattern(s), and simply save those pictures to the other volume in the first place. [perhaps put an alias on your desktop, if that makes "drag-n-drop" easier.]

if i hold command and drag then the files leave my desktop
does this help?

Works as expected then.

 

[iThinkergoiMac]

As Hal said, no reason to change that behavior. Either get used to using the command key when necessary or use Hal's idea of an alias (which would work quite well, I think).

 

[Tomple]

okay thanks!