Chapter 3 Using your Raspberry Pi^45THE OFFICIAL RASPBERRY PI BEGINNER’S GUIDE
Files on a removable device can easily be copied to the Raspberry Pi’s microSD card,
or from the microSD card to a removable device: with both your home directory and the
removable device open in separate File Manager windows, move your mouse pointer to the
file you want to copy, click and hold the left mouse button down, slide your mouse pointer to
the other window, and let go of the mouse button (Figure 3-15). This is known as dragging
and dropping.
Another method is to click once on the file, click on the Edit menu, click on Copy, click on the
other window, click on the Edit menu, and click on Paste.
The Move option, also available in the Edit menu, is similar except it deletes the file from its
original home after making the copy
Both options can also be used through the keyboard shortcuts CTRL+C (copy) or CTRL+X
(cut), and paste via CTRL+V.
5 Figure 3-15: Dragging and dropping a file
When you’ve finished experimenting, close the File Manager by clicking the close button
at the top-left of the window. If you have more than one window open, close them all. If you
connected a removable storage device to your Pi, eject it by clicking the eject button at the top-
right of the screen, finding it in the list, and clicking on it before unplugging it.
KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS
When you see a keyboard shortcut like CTRL+C, it means to
hold down the first key on the keyboard (CTRL), press the
second key (C), then let go of both keys.