Finder shortcut to move / cut files?

[Spike099]

Hey everyone,

I am someone who likes to use the keyboard as much as possible rather than the mouse. I really like the column view in finder. However when I download something for example I like move it to a sorted folder usually. In that scenario I would then be forced to use the mouse to move the file, or copy using -c and pasting it in the appropriate folder and then going back and deleting the file. On a pc you can simply hit alt-x to cut and then you can paste it anywhere. I want this but in finder. Anyone?

 

[maxrobertson]

Drag and hold command apple:.)

 

[Frisco]

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/21769

 

[Spike099]

Almost

FileCutter is almost what I want, but you still have to use the mouse to accesse the context menu. I am looking for something that I can select the file, press maybe -x to cut/move it than -c to place it in another folder.

 

[epochblue]

AFAIK, there is no such command within the Finder. I use FileCutter to do this because it's the only method I've ever found to do it....

If you're a Quicksilver user, you could set up a trigger to take the currently selected file and "Move To..." and then you could type the name of the folder you want to move it to. When I download torrents to my desktop, I have a keyboard shortcut (Cmd+Ctrl+Shift+M) that moves the file to my ~/Torrents directory.