Drag and Drop of a file Default Operation Changed from Move to Copy

Bug #1125275 reported by LantzR
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nautilus (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

nautilus/TC-NFM-003

Test-case name: nautilus/TC-NFM-003
 1. depends: nautilus/TC-NFM-002

This test will check that user can move files to folders.

 1. Please ensure the Nautilus window is running and the Nautilus window
    is focused
 1.5 create a doc named moveme.txt
 2. Drag moveme.txt and drop into the folder test.
     1. Is the file moveme.txt now located in 'test' folder?
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• Yes - but it was copied not moved. The original is still there and a copy in the folder.

== Distribution ==
head --lines 9 dists/raring/Release
Origin: Ubuntu
Label: Ubuntu
Suite: raring
Version: 13.04
Codename: raring
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 7:20:15 UTC
Architectures: i386
Components: main restricted
Description: Ubuntu Raring 13.04

Tags: raring
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Christopher L Weber (cweber10) wrote :

Confirmed on 13.04 Live CD(13-02-11). Copy is now the default Drag and drop action You can now use shift to Move while before you used ctrl to force a copy. Is this a planed change?
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Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
summary: - Dropping a file into folder does a copy instead of a move
+ Drag and Drop of a file Default Operation Changed from Move to Copy
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