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Cutting and Pasting in the digital age

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Yet again, Robert (@sanchothefat) makes a good point. He vents his frustration on Twitter over the Mac’s inability to Cut and Paste files and folders, like you can on Windows. The folks at Apple argue that it’s because they’d rather users didn’t confuse the cutting and pasting of text with files. Some others argue that files may get lost if one forgets to paste the cut file. Though, this never happens since nothing happens to the file until the user performs the paste command. OSX creators and users prefer to think of the operation as a Move. Read the rest of this entry »