How to move files not copy

how to move files from mac to an external hard drive. Copy leaves the files on the mac hard dive. I am trying to free up space on the mac hard drive.

Whenever you migrate data to an external drive, the files will copy. Once the copy is done, simply delete the files from your internal drive.

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