A legitimate use case for a search window is to look for items matching some
criterion and delete all of them.  Or the user might simply look at an item ina
 search and decide that she doesn't need them anymore. So the user should be
able to move an item directly from a search window to the trash. I understand
that a search is a virtual folder but the user strongly expects items to be
deletable, to the point that it is a shock that the item is grayed out. This
expectation is reinforced because you can drag and drop fom a search folder to a
regular folder. Currently it is very cumbersome to delete an item in a search
because there isn't even a context menu item like "open containing folder" or
something. 

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