question about bailing out of a drag-n-drop action

July 5, 2007

Hello.

One of the things I dislike about xp (and previous versions of

windows) is that sometimes it's difficult to figure out how to cancel

an action. Like when you accidentally press the right mouse button

somewhere, you can press escape to bail out from the menu.

Now sometimes it happens people accidentally press the left mouse

button on a file or folder in the explorer, they drag around with the

items and they don't want to release the mouse button somewhere and

actually copy or move files. My method of bailing out in that case is

to find a location on the screen where I get an icon that indicates

the contents can't be copied there and I release the mouse button at

that point, so nothing happens. Does anyone know of a better way to

bail out of when inadvertently drag-n-dropping something that also

avoids actually copying the items?

Thanks in advance for any feedback, kind regards, Niek

July 5, 2007

Re: question about bailing out of a drag-n-drop action

sobriquet wrote:

> Hello.

> One of the things I dislike about xp (and previous versions of

> windows) is that sometimes it's difficult to figure out how to cancel

> an action. Like when you accidentally press the right mouse button

> somewhere, you can press escape to bail out from the menu.

> Now sometimes it happens people accidentally press the left mouse

> button on a file or folder in the explorer, they drag around with the

> items and they don't want to release the mouse button somewhere and

> actually copy or move files. My method of bailing out in that case is

> to find a location on the screen where I get an icon that indicates

> the contents can't be copied there and I release the mouse button at

> that point, so nothing happens. Does anyone know of a better way to

> bail out of when inadvertently drag-n-dropping something that also

> avoids actually copying the items?

>

> Thanks in advance for any feedback, kind regards, Niek

You return to the original location; that will stop the move/copy/whatever.

Ctrl/Z will Undo the move/copy/whatever.

hth,

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Joe =o)

July 5, 2007

Re: question about bailing out of a drag-n-drop action

Doesn't pressing escape work in that case also?

"sobriquet" <dohduhdah@yahoo.com> wrote in message

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