question about bailing out of a drag-n-drop action

[sobriquet]

Hello.
One of the things I dislike about xp (and previous versions of
windows) is that sometimes it's difficult to figure out how to cancel
an action. Like when you accidentally press the right mouse button
somewhere, you can press escape to bail out from the menu.
Now sometimes it happens people accidentally press the left mouse
button on a file or folder in the explorer, they drag around with the
items and they don't want to release the mouse button somewhere and
actually copy or move files. My method of bailing out in that case is
to find a location on the screen where I get an icon that indicates
the contents can't be copied there and I release the mouse button at
that point, so nothing happens. Does anyone know of a better way to
bail out of when inadvertently drag-n-dropping something that also
avoids actually copying the items?

Thanks in advance for any feedback, kind regards, Niek

 

[Elmo]

Hello.
One of the things I dislike about xp (and previous versions of
windows) is that sometimes it's difficult to figure out how to cancel
an action. Like when you accidentally press the right mouse button
somewhere, you can press escape to bail out from the menu.
Now sometimes it happens people accidentally press the left mouse
button on a file or folder in the explorer, they drag around with the
items and they don't want to release the mouse button somewhere and
actually copy or move files. My method of bailing out in that case is
to find a location on the screen where I get an icon that indicates
the contents can't be copied there and I release the mouse button at
that point, so nothing happens. Does anyone know of a better way to
bail out of when inadvertently drag-n-dropping something that also
avoids actually copying the items?

Thanks in advance for any feedback, kind regards, Niek

You return to the original location; that will stop the move/copy/whatever.

Ctrl/Z will Undo the move/copy/whatever.

hth,

 

[Code-Curious Mom]

Doesn't pressing escape work in that case also?

 

[DanS]

Doesn't pressing escape work in that case also?

It does !