Copy, move and paste

Where it is

The right-click menu · Ctrl+C, Ctrl+X, Ctrl+V

What you can do

• Click to select. Ctrl-click adds or removes one item, Shift-click selects a range, Ctrl+A selects everything. Drag across empty space to select with a box.
• Ctrl+C copies, Ctrl+X cuts, Ctrl+V pastes. It's the desktop's clipboard, so you can paste into or from other file managers.
• Drag files onto a folder, into the other side of a split window, or onto a place in the sidebar. On the same drive a drag moves; to another drive it copies. Hold Ctrl as you drop to copy, or Shift to move.
• If a name is already taken, Omanta asks once for the whole lot: Keep both, Skip or Replace.
• Ctrl+Shift+N makes a new folder. With files in ~/Templates, New Document in the right-click menu makes a copy of one.
• A circle at the foot of the sidebar shows copies in progress; click it for details, or to cancel one.
• Ctrl+Z undoes, and Ctrl+Shift+Z redoes.

In this film

1. 0:05SelectClick one; Ctrl-click adds another, Shift-click a range
2. 0:08CopyCtrl+C, or Copy in the right-click menu
3. 0:08Paste into another folderCtrl+V; Ctrl+X then Ctrl+V moves instead
4. 0:12Already there? You chooseKeep both, skip, or replace
5. 0:21Drag a file onto a folder to move it
6. 0:26Hold Ctrl as you drop to copy instead
7. 0:31A new folderCtrl+Shift+N, then its name
8. 0:35Changed your mind? Ctrl+Z undoes it