Surprisingly, Google Drive didn’t allow people to use keyboard shortcuts to cut, copy, and paste files until yesterday, and even now, they can only do so if they’re using Google’s Chrome browser at the time.
The new addition was announced via a blog post and will come as a surprise to many who assumed it was already possible. Well, it is now, but not if you use Safari or any other browser. It’s Google Chome for you, or you can right-click as before.
You can now use the familiar shortcut keys Ctrl + C (or ⌘ + C on Mac), Ctrl + X, and Ctrl + V to copy, cut, and paste Google Drive files into your Chrome browser. This saves you time as it allows you to copy one or more files and move them to new locations in Drive and multiple tabs with fewer clicks.
Google Drive will also support creating shortcuts instead of duplicating files by adding CTRL to the keyboard shortcut to paste them, and the new shortcuts will work just as well on both Mac and PC. The copy action will also copy the path of a file, ready to be pasted into a document for easy retrieval later.
In addition, a link to the file and its title will be captured when copying a file, allowing you to easily paste them into a document or email.
If you don’t see this change in your Google Account right now, please fire. It should start in the next few days for anyone using a personal Google Account in Chrome. It may not be the best Mac web browser for most things, but Chrome has just become the best way to move files in Google Drive!
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