Re: Is there a setting to turn off Download and Delete as default between Winscp panels?
@silasmiller: Can you please be more specific? I do not think that WinSCP ever "Download and Delete as default between WinSCP panels".
What exactly do you mean by "other WinSCP panel"? Do you mean the other panel in the same WinSCP window? Or panel in another WinSCP window?
testing 2 versions of WinSCP: 5.9.6 and 5.17.2 on Windows 10, both portable versions:
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While dragging and dropping resources between directories in an FTP site should cause those resources to move, dragging from an FTP site to a local directory should cause those resources to be copied instead. This would be consistent with both Mac OS and Windows. My team has often inadvertently removed files from our FTP sites by dragging them onto their desktop.
Additionally, having the ability to right-click drag like in Windows would be most welcome. In that way, a user may explicitly define whether those resources should be moved or copied as a result of the drag-and-drop operation by selecting an option from the right-click context menu.