How do I cut and paste files on Mavericks?

How do I cut and paste files from Mac to External Hard disk? I was copying them and later moving the files from Mac to trash and then emptying the trash. This is so lengthy and time wasting process that Apple

Press and hold command as you're dragging and dropping: that will move the file, in stead of copying it.
Two other things that might be handy:
* option-drag will force a copy, even if the file is on the same volume
* command-option-drag will make an alias to the file/folder.

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create new
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How to copy and paste file in mavericks

how to copy and paste file in mavericks?

Spoombung wrote:
I actually can't get copy and paste to work in Mavericks!!!
Is it me, or is there something wrong with it? I can hardly believe this was overlooked....
Obviously it was not overlooked.
Select a file, go to the edit menu and choose Copy, open another folder and choose Paste from the edit menu.
What happened (error messages etc)

What has happened to cut and paste files?

Hi,
I was a Windows user for a long time and then I switched to Linux, and finally to Mac OS X. So I'm quite used to cut and paste files in Windows and Linux, I didn't discover this problem in Mac OS X until I tried right clicking on a file in order to move it into another folder, but I found out that there is no cut or move option in the menu, so I tried Edit> Cut in the menu bar of Finder but surprisingly I found out it is grayed out, nor does the command X button have any effect. so I always have to drag the files and navigate into the desired folder in order to move them there, which is really frustrating sometimes. Is it my Mac or every other Mac out there has the same Bug? What is the work around solution?

Thanks for the tip, its what I have been doing for a while.
You made a good point about cut files being deleted, however I think that is not the case, at least in other Operating systems that I have used, even If I forget to paste a file into a folder, they will never be deleted, at least it never happened to me, but I'm quite sure about this, so I don't think this would be a problem in Mac either, and if it is, which would be embarrassing, then what's the point of putting a dead Cut option in the Menu bar? am I missing something here? there has to be a work around, is it possible that I should change a security setting or something, somewhere?
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* Select: use cursor keys and shift, or drag over with the mouse
* Copy: ctrl+c, or right-click|Copy
* Paste: ctrl+v, or right-click|Paste
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