Cut and paste not working in (total)finder

Hi all
I have noticed an issue with my cut and paste option on my macbook pro since I upgraded to Mountain Lion OS. I used to be able to cut items from a folder and paste into another folder quite efficiently. It's fine when I copy and paste, however this means I need to go back and delete the items I have pasted.
Any help is much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Meera

Hi CT and meera404,
I am having the same problem of not being able to perform "command-x" and "command-v" (cut & paste) in Finder on Mac OS X 10.8.2.
When I go into the Finder menu options and click on the "Edit" tab menu, it appears that the "Cut" button is not available and appears as disabled.
Any suggestions on how I can enable this?
Thanks in advance for the feedback!

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