undo moving of a folder in Windows

Question

There are times when instead of scrolling vertically in file explorer I accidentally move a folder to within another folder. Great! It happens so quick I don't know which folder was moved and this means I just screwed up an application installation.

Is there a way to undo this operation? Or someway to disable moving of folders by default?

Using Windows 7.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 18 '10 at 17:16

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CTRL+z

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ALT to display menu then Edit -> Undo Move

Of course this only works if the Move was the last thing you did!

answered Mar 18 '10 at 17:16

Shevek

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I did a control-z but didn't see a visual cue so maybe it worked. Don't know what got moved and so don't know if folder got moved back! – Tony_Henrich Mar 20 '10 at 15:09
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I'm asking this exact question: How do you know what got moved or undone? http://superuser.com/questions/347494/how-to-determine-exactly-which-file-actions-will-be-reverted-when-doing-an-undo/347597 – Syclone0044 Nov 06 '11 at 19:28

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 18 '10 at 17:16

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The Control+Z key usually does an undo.

answered Mar 18 '10 at 17:16

nik

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beat you to it :) – Shevek Mar 18 '10 at 17:18
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yeah :) good going, +1 there. – nik Mar 18 '10 at 17:18

undo moving of a folder in Windows

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