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> How do you manage files in windows at all without drag and drop? Do you just never reorganize anything?

Ctrl-X, Ctrl-V.

Are you a Mac user? Apple disabled Cut in Finder ages ago, basically for aesthetic reasons. It's a constant irritation with my Mac that I have to manually change the folder view just to move a file up one level; on Windows you can do it in less than a second with Ctrl-X, Backspace, Ctrl-V.

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Apple did not "disable" Cut.

1. Copy the source file with Cmd-C

2. Browse to the destination

3. Move with Cmd-Opt-V

It's a UI design decision to avoid Cut in the filesystem. Cut would behave differently from Cut in every other app -- namely, the file is not deleted immediately after Cut. It seems better to avoid calling this "Cut" than to have it behave inconsistently from other apps.

There are Finder extensions like XtraFinder that add cut&paste to it (and a lot of other goodies)

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