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Drag file help!
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Hal Itosis
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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.]
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.
If it is indeed on your internal drive, for some reason your computer is treating it as some kind of external location.
Hal Itosis
macrumors 6502a
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.]
Works as expected then.
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).