Drag and drop- Move or copy?

Hi Everyone,

'Drag and Drop' is tricky when you do not know the REAL truth. To recover anything from the ‘Recycle bin’ like 37 GB of music, WONT take four hours to do!  ONE aspect is: ON the  EDIT part of any menu bar when you right click on it, YOU'LL will see "UNDO MOVE". That sometimes will take the four hours! HA-HA! to you if you try that. MY way for any three-year-old child can do: IF you see an unwanted folder in the Recycle bin", Also Right click on that and click on "RESTORE", It pops back instantly where it WAS!!! THIS works with all versions of Windows from Windows 3.0. I find folders where it also inside other folders by a careless 'Drag and drop. and UNDO Move restores it also usually at the end of the list.

The REAL reason WHY I posed the Drag and drop Determination Question a couple years ago was answered by my Brother like  it is determined by the left or right mouse button with a qualifier:

With the right mouse button down while Dragging, you get to choose it as a COPY or a MOVE.

As the left mouse button down, The determination IS a MOVE WHEN it on the SAME DRIVE.

Or a COPY when it is between drives. NOT between partitions on the same drive. THAT is what it does. I go beyond the normal 26-drive letters from A to Z. and if the drive is mounted into a NTSF folder, it is considered a MOVE between it and the drive it is mounted on!

The tricky part of Dragging and dropping is how steady is your hand in holding the finger down on either mouse button? Even if you release the pressure slightly, you drop it even where you do not want it to be! AND it can be fatal if you do not confirm it to be Deleted. I had to reboot a clean copy windows because of it, It is NO joke trying it on the desktop. My younger two  brothers agree as never to do a 'Cut and Paste' to anywhere! WHY? Simple. Copy, then  Paste and be sure you verify ALL what you want in its new folder BEFORE Deleting where it was! Maybe Windows or the PC burps. It ends the long copy procedure! AS I find out so many times. The last blank manila folder where the copy procedure was interrupted. IF you define all of your folders with an icon, the last file copied in the folder is "Desktop.ini" * and that holds your customizations as to Windows 7 -10 Icons. If it does not get copied at all, the copy is incomplete. Therefore YOU can start from there and not start over and waste time like four hours.

* ‘Desktop.ini’ is a hidden system folder I want to see as to verify that the proper icon shows up and its address is correct. With Windows XP, it also shows the folder’s background image like the desktop, that is described in Windows 98 and 2000. You can reveal these system folders, but you have also know what they do, As when a folder has NOT been customized at all with an icon as when you first started Windows when you got the PC, this file does not exist in the folder. Customizing any folder with an icon is a landmark in the desert amongst all the same blank folders as guideposts in navigation. YOU have to know where you are to where you want to go like any road sign to a city or street address. Windows Vista and later, have special properties with icons I do like because I am somewhat vision impaired. I specialize my ten PCs to help me do that. You can edit this 'Desktop.ini' by opening it and it opens with "Notepad.exe" with NO text formatting. And a few other system folders. AS you also have to know what you are doing or else you will cause problems you cannot fix for $249.

Another point in dragging between two or more windows, NEVER drag over any folders, in either between them in a vertical or horizontal line, as this prevents dropping in any folder. Also watch for the insertion point as a thin vertical line if you want between folders. And if you want a certain folder, IT will be highlighted when you grab a group of objects and you only will see the one that is under the cursor. To get the proper insertion point, go below and between the two objects, NOT on the same line between them. YOU can adjust the spacing between the Icons for all folder using the properties of the desktop or Personalization of the Desktop that becomes part of your theme. Sometimes there is a blank area at the right of the opened windows, that is used for dragging around between windows.

I use an explorer mouse that has buttons on both sides of the mouse for fast access between folders where I have been and where I want to go, such as the Microsoft Wired optical 4500 mouse. Hitting these side buttons in the process in dragging will put that object where it should not go very easily. It is not the only mouse I use when I need precision placement.

From Edmond The Software Engineer.

You've posted a question about Windows 10 in an old thread about Windows XP.  You need to post your question in the appropriate forum.

Simply

i have accidentally moved a large music folder into a recycle bin in my WDcloud i'm now copy and pasted the folder back to where it suppose to live . windows 10 says 4 hours  to copy and paste the folder back to where it came

if i dragged it out the recycle bin the way i accidentally put it in there. would it be instant no waiting .

It went in instantly will it come out the same manner