Google has added the ability to use keyboard shortcuts to cut, copy, and paste files in drive, as long as you’re using Chrome. The feature will use th- okay, hold on just a minute here here.

This December 2021 archive of drive’s list of keyboard shortcuts does n’t say anything about the functions. It’s not like keyboard shortcuts for copy, cut, and paste have been around since the functions’ invention in the 1970s.

Google’s post says the feature should be available to everyone by June 4th. The company says it will be able to use the standard control / command C, X, and V to copy and move files around like you would in pretty much any other file manager.

The feature will also work across different tabs. If you copy a file and then try to paste it into a Google Doc or email, it’ll insert the file’s title and a link to it.

You’ll be able to paste shortcuts to files if you do n’t want duplicate versions all over your cloud storage system. The command for that will be Ctrl / CMD shift V.