Indicated by: "move" on the icon and a single straight arrow. This is the equivalent of misspelling a word in a newspaper headline.īackground: dragging and dropping from one Explorer window to another has the below behavior, which is by design and the responsibility of the app (Explorer): It's not an esoteric rare operation but in a common user path. Unless there's some non-intuitive rationale for this, it appears to be a gross error. It says "link" but it's not creating a link, but copying the file. Windows iTunes shows the wrong icon during a drag/drop from Explorer to the iTunes sidebar. It appears whoever wrote the Windows iTunes UI event handling for drag drop implemented the above logic for icon display, but the actual operation was a copy, not create an alias or a link. In some cases the documented Mac OS behavior for unmodified drag/drop is create an alias, and pressing Option is required to copy the actual file. You could argue this is inconsistent since the file is copied in both cases, but at least it's not outright wrong. In both cases the actual operation is a copy. If you press Option, it changes to a green plus sign. On Mac OS X 10.8.4, drag/drop from Finder to the iTunes sidebar shows the file icon. The drag/drop icon behavior is different within Explorer (see below). The drag/drop modifiers CTRL, ALT and SHFT do nothing, which is appropriate for this case. The icon behavior during drag/drop is clearly the responsibility of the app, in this case iTunes.ĭragging/dropping the same files on Windows Photoshop or Premiere Pro CS6 shows "copy" on the drag/drop icon, and a plus sign. ![]() ![]() Video: EVGA nVidia GeForce GTX-660 2GB, driver: 320.49īTW this is drag/drop to the iTunes sidebar. System disk: 1TB Velociraptor, 10k rpm SATAĭata disk: 2 x 2TB WD Caviar Black, 7200 rpm SATA, RAID 0, driver=Intel RST ver. ![]() ALT key during drag/drop causes the icon to become a copy icon with "copy" and plus sign, but it does the same thing as the link icon - file is copied.ĬPU: quad-core Intel i7-875K 4.01Ghz, hyperthreading on, RAM: Corsair Vengeance 16GB DDR3 12800 When using the CTRL or SHIFT key to modify the drag/drop operation from copy to move, the iTunes UI doesn't respond but maintains the link icon. However in both cases the actual file (not a link) IS copied to iTunes and if the device is sync'd, transferred to the device. The link icon says "link" with a symbolic arrow, indicating the actual file isn't being copied, rather a link back to the file. Likewise during drag and drop of a PDF file from my PC to an app within iTunes that supports that (like GoodReader), it also shows a link icon, not the icon for the file. During drag and drop of an MP4 video file from Windows 7 PC to iTunes library, it shows a link icon, not the icon for the file.
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