Copying Files on Mac

Since I came to Mac from Unix, I've done large complicated things mostly using the Terminal, which has a traditional Unix (Gnu and BSD) command interface, including the cp command.   Using that with the find command it is possible to do what I'm describing, but it's a bit complicated, enough for me to never bother.  I often write Tcl programs to do tricky things with regards to moving and copying files (and I now have a program intended for release called Collection Assistant which consolidates groups of files in arbitrary ways and eliminates duplicate file contents, when files are different content with same name they are renamed...why is it so hard to do THAT...)

"Moving" rather than "Copying" is assumed in the Mac drag-and-drop interface.  I guess that makes sense.  But how do I make it do copying?  I was not able to find the answer in 10 minutes of googling.  They gave other answers which are more complicated in my view.  I was sure there was something easier.

So I went back to a more traditional way of finding things out on a computer.  I just tried things.  The Command key didn't work, but guess what, the Option key does!  When you're holding the Option key, a plus symbol (+) appears when you hover over a folder in finder with a selected bunch of files.  I'm sure people have told me this before also, but somehow it never stuck.

It's taken me 25 years using a Mac to discover that all you have to do to copy files rather than moving them is to hold down the Option key.  It's actually very intuitive.

But why is it so hard to find out when googling for it?

I Hate Coupons !!!

 Today I waited in the checkout line for 20 minutes for the checker to scan over 200 coupons in a tall stack for the person in front of me.  The customer was "buying" four boxes of some kind of moisturizer in lipstick like tubes, packed 50 or more to a box.  There was a coupon for each tube of moisturizer, and each one had to be scanned.  The checker was scanning them as fast as she possibly could.  I looked over at the next isle and there was another customer with boxes of moisturizer and coupons.

Meanwhile I had refrigerated and perishable food items which I had hoped to last about 5 days.  I think the prepared meals are probably going to be ok, but the deli turkey slices barely make it to their sell by date even without such additional challenges.

It wasn't the time wasted that bothered me as much as the possibility of my $100 worth of actual food going bad.

I had half a mind to just walk out of the store leaving my stuff on the scanner belt in protest.  I might have except for fears that if I did that, they'd possibly discontinue some of my favorite items next time.  Likewise if I refused to buy the turkey slices, they might well discontinue that variety and replace it with some new variety I can't stand.  That sort of thing seemed to have happened before.  So I never "protest" at the store.  If something goes bad early, I'll just throw it out at home.

Most grocery store coupons are for items you would be better off not buying anyway.  In the few instances where they give me coupons for things I regularly buy, which happens sometimes, I immediately throw them out.  I never remember to bring them to the store anyway, and every time I think about them or try to remember them or find them or go back to get them uses up my time.  I think the whole "coupon" thing is a big waste of time and I don't want to support it in any way.