{"id":7730,"date":"2013-08-27T16:24:08","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T21:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=7730"},"modified":"2013-08-27T16:24:08","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T21:24:08","slug":"finder-paste-item-exactly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/27\/finder-paste-item-exactly\/","title":{"rendered":"Finder: Paste Item Exactly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/optshiftk\/status\/372461199914319872\">Kyle Sluder<\/a> notes that if you hold down the Option and Shift keys, the Finder&rsquo;s Edit menu changes Paste to &ldquo;Paste Item Exactly.&rdquo; I think this was added in Mac OS X 10.7. It prompts for an administrator password and preserves the original file&rsquo;s ownership and permissions. <a href=\"http:\/\/superuser.com\/questions\/562521\/what-are-paste-item-exactly-and-duplicate-exactly-in-finder\">Super User<\/a> says that it does not preserve access control lists (ACLs), though.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyle Sluder notes that if you hold down the Option and Shift keys, the Finder&rsquo;s Edit menu changes Paste to &ldquo;Paste Item Exactly.&rdquo; I think this was added in Mac OS X 10.7. It prompts for an administrator password and preserves the original file&rsquo;s ownership and permissions. Super User says that it does not preserve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[546,547,458,30,32],"class_list":["post-7730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ownership","tag-permissions","tag-finder","tag-mac","tag-macapp"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}