iCanCut For Mac

If you have been recently transitioning to the Mac OS X, you might be disappointed by the fact that you cannot cut and paste files using hotkeys. iCanCut is a minimalist Mac status bar menu application designed to rectify this situation.

Once installed, iCanCut will place a new icon in your status bar menu and allows you to cut a file using the Command + X hotkey and then paste it to another location by using the Command + V keyboard combination.

For your convenience, you can set up the iCanCut app to launch at login, so you will have access to its capabilities at all times without having to interact with the utility unnecessarily.

However, note that the application only triggers the actions: the actual transfers are performed by the Finder application.

As a result, for large transfer you can view a progress dialog and cancel the operation is necessary, undo actions are supported and, when the destination folder contains files with the same name, you will be prompted for the course of action that should be adopted.

To make sure that you will never lose any files, the iCanCut cut command copies the name files to the pasteboard and leaves the files in the source folder until the user performs the paste action. What’s more, the app makes sure the hotkeys are active only in the Finder window to avoid interference with other applications.

Last but not least, the iCanCut status bar icon will let you know if the cut operation has been performed successfully or if the clipboard content has been modified by another application.

To conclude, iCanCut might be a small status bar menu applications, but delivers a function desired by many: you get to cut and paste files and folders on Mac OS X by using keyboard combinations.