&gt;The reason the Finder did not have copy-paste for years, and why it doesn&#x27;t have cut till this day is that it is hard to implement. A proper cut would immediately delete the file from the file system, and a later paste would paste the file with the contents it had when the file was cut or copied (Excel is also notoriously bad at this; cut a range, close the file, and try pasting)<p>Huh? That&#x27;s the strangest reasoning I&#x27;ve ever seen - all other file managers on platforms (including 3rd party file managers on OS X) do this well and delete original file only after the paste command is done. It works, is very useful and doesn&#x27;t confuse users any more than the cut functionality does. So I&#x27;m not sure where your reasoning comes from.