Bother of the day. For the two months I have been using my MacBook Pro, I hadn’t really looked into this one, but today was when it became “peeve of the day”. You cannot cut and paste a file in Finder. And Apple’s decision is final.
How can they honestly ask Windows users to switch, when extremely basic features that have been in Windows at least since 95 (I believe in 3.1 too, but cannot confirm this) are simply not there. In this thread at macrumors.com some explanations are “this is not present in order to prevent lost files”, and “what if you forget to paste? the file is gone” – if this had ever been a problem in Windows, do you think it would not have been fixed? In Windows, if you “forget” to paste a file you have cut, it is never deleted. It never goes to the trash without passing Go and collecting $100. It just sits there, until the OS decides you have indeed forgotten to paste it.
Whatever you do next, Steve, get yourself a copy of Windows XP and copy all the features people find normal, before you ask them to switch. Oh, and I still love the Mac.