![]() ![]() What arrives at the destination is disappointingly exactly what you’d get from a regular Finder move: all saved versions are stripped from it. This seems angled at encouraging users to move iWork documents to iCloud, but even there is an odd decision: according the Finder’s listing of what it calls iCloud Drive, the Pages – iCloud option is also in iCloud Drive, rather than being a separate location. If you want a properly-designed purposeful dialog, you have to click on Other… right at the bottom to see a familiar Save File dialog. ![]() In the spirit of novelty, as if intended to exemplify bad interface design, that popup lists a strange assortment of locations, of which only a few seem remotely appropriate. ![]() Instead of the normal Save File dialog, as used by countless apps for a great many years, it drops down a small sheet offering in a popup menu to move the document to where it already is. So what does the Move To command in these iWork apps actually do?įirst, it surprises you by not adopting the standard human interface. Because a move to a different volume creates a new file, though, you should normally expect it to break each of those, particularly saved versions. Most important of all, it preserves any saved versions in the macOS versioning system. It doesn’t break hard links, of course, nor Finder Aliases. Moving a document within the same volume preserves anything associated with it, apart from symbolic links to it. There are some subtle side-effects which are worth considering too. It’s also worth noting that, during move operations, although the original document is deleted, it isn’t put in the Trash but removed once the new copy has been saved. In the Finder, you can always opt to move a document to a different volume by holding the Command key down for the operation, and holding the Option key when dragging to a different location on the same volume results in a copy rather than move. Although consistent with Apple’s model that iCloud Drive is part of your Home folder, that isn’t how it’s shown in the Finder, and becomes even more confusing when part of your Home folder is stored on an external volume. That is unless you drag an item from a non-boot volume to iCloud Drive, in which case it behaves as if it’s being copied between two different volumes. More recently, Apple broke this convention with dragging documents to and from iCloud Drive, something that I drew attention to in this article. The longstanding convention in the Finder has been that dragging a document from one location to another on the same volume has moved that document, whilst performing this same act to a different volume has copied the document to the other volume, leaving the original in place, rather than moving it. This article looks at why you might (not) prefer to use that instead of the Finder. But recent versions of Apple’s iWork apps – Pages, Numbers and Keynote – have offered a menu command to move the current document to a different location. Dear reader, this is just to let you know that as an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.Ever since the first Mac, the Finder has provided a common interface for moving and copying documents. Please follow me on Mastodon, or join me in the AppleHolic’s bar & grill and Apple Discussions groups on MeWe. Viewing a Keynote Live presentation is now supported only in a web browser.Includes improvements and bug fixes for collaboration activity. ![]() Export and send a copy of your presentation in a different format in the Share menu.Apple Pencil hover so you can write, sketch, navigate, illustrate with greater precision on supported iPad models.Improvements and bug fixes for collaboration activity.Viewing a Keynote Live presentation is only supported in a web browser.Export and send a copy of your presentation in a different format right from the Share menu.Templates for reports, notes, letters, and resumes now feature placeholder text with instructions (yay).Export and send a copy of your document in a different format right from the Share menu.Improvements and bug fixes for mail merge and collaboration activity.Templates for reports, notes, letters, and resumes now feature placeholder text with instructions.Share documents in different formats from the Share menu.On iPads that support the Apple Pencil hover feature it will be easier to navigate, write, sketch, and illustrate with greater precision.Improvements and bug fixes for collaboration.Improved performance for large spreadsheets on Apple silicon Macs.Export and send a copy of a Numbers spreadsheet in a different format from the Share menu. ![]()
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