When transferring a file from one drive to another or within the same drive I always noticed that using Copy/Paste takes much longer than Cut/Paste, with an added hard drive activity. Is this because in Copy/Paste Windows makes an actual physical duplicate in the target location whereas in Cut/Paste it only changes the directory mapping? If so, why can't it also change the directory mapping in Copy/Paste?
Copy/Paste takes longer than Cut/Paste, why?
