Copy, move, rename, delete

The other half of a file explorer. ⌘C ⌘X ⌘V, ⌫ to delete and ⌘Z to undo, in the tree, the list and the grid; F2 renames in the tree. Drag a file onto a folder of the tree to move it there, and hold ⌥ to copy it instead.

Across providers

It works across providers, and that is the part a console cannot do: a file cut from S3 and pasted into an Azure container streams through your machine part by part and lands as an object, and a local folder pasted into a bucket goes up file by file.

Within one provider the bytes never touch your machine at all — GCS rewriteTo, S3 x-amz-copy-source, Azure x-ms-copy-source, a plain copy on disk. A transfer reports its progress at the foot of the sidebar, file by file and byte by byte, with cancel beside it, and a copy that was cut short continues where it stopped when it is copied again.

Delete, and undo

A delete on this disk goes to the system's Trash. A delete in the cloud asks first, then moves the object into a .trash folder at the top of its own root, one folder per delete, so it is a move and not a loss. That trash is emptied of anything older than 30 days on the next delete in that root.

⌘Z takes back the last copy, move, rename, paste or delete — the file comes back out of the Trash or the .trash, and whatever a paste replaced comes back too. It works while the tree, the list or the grid has the focus, and only for this session: after a restart, what was deleted is still in the Trash or the .trash, to be fetched by hand.

Conflicts

Pasting onto a name that exists asks, once, and the answer applies to the rest of the batch: Keep both (the new one is named "name copy", then "name copy 2"), Replace (what was there goes to the Trash first) or Skip. A file pasted into its own folder is a duplicate, named the same way.

Next: sharing a table.