From SoydeMac We want to respond to both advanced users and switcher users who have just arrived in the world of the bitten apple.
In this case we are going to explain a small detail that must be taken into account when we are going to work with the file movement in our system if we want it not to turn into an action that takes longer than it should.
When we want to copy a file from our system from one location to another, what we normally do is select it and then drag it to the new location. The question for which I write this post is so that you know how this copying process is carried out correctly and the time it takes to do it especially when we are talking about large amounts of data. Making a wrong copy process is very simple. If we have many large files, we choose them one by one and then we drag them one by one to another location, we will see how many copy processes will open as files we have dragged to the new location. To do it correctly, what we have to do is first select all the files that we want to move and then drag them to generate a single copy process. Keep in mind that to be able to select within a location several files that are not followed in the list, just hold down the key "Cmd" at the same time that you are clicking on the files in question.
For some, this post will seem trivial because it is something that is normally done innately, but when we talk about files of 20-30Gb or more, the times increase and in the end we end up waiting longer than we should.
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