Kevin Krammer posted on Thu, 15 Aug 2013 19:19:11 +0200 as excerpted: > On Thursday, 2013-08-15, Doug wrote: >> In Windows 95 (and I think in Win 98) you could open a window on a >> directory, open a window on another directory, and using the mouse, >> highlight a series of files in the first directory. Then you could >> *copy* that whole group of files to the second directory, en masse. >> Or, I think you could decide to *move* them, en masse. >> >> I don't think you can do that in Windows 7 or 8, but I'm not sure. >> Anyway: >> >> I have not discovered any way to do that in KDE or using any Linux app. >> Can it be done, and if so, how? It's a royal PITA to copy or move >> files one-by-one to another directory. > > This is strange, that has been available for more than a decade in > basically all UI file managers. > > Lets assume using Dolphin. > > Select files to copy move in one window, then > 1) drag to second window > 2) edit->copy (cut for move) in first window, edit ->paste in second > 3) right click -> copy (cut), right click -> paste > 4) CTRL+C (+X), CTRL+V > or any combination of the last three. > > Works on local file systems and remotely (FTP, SFTP, WebDav, etc).
Agreed and I use all four methods here depending on what feels most convenient to me ATM, but... Doug /did/ mention having to do it one-by-one, which to me anyway hints at a a problem /multi-selecting/ the files, not necessarily copying/ moving once selected... But you did such a good job explaining the copy/move possibilities that I rather doubt I can match it with an equally clear explanation of select methods. =:^\ Never-the-less, depending on the program, one or all of the following, in general very similar to the way one would do it on MS, generally works. Multi-select using: 1) Drag a "rubber-band" across the items you wish to select. (Note that you don't want to start the selection-drag directly on a file, or it will try to drag that file, not create a selection-lasso. Depending on how closely the items are packed or how clicking the area around them is interpreted, this can be a bit difficult in some apps. I often have that problem with gwenview, for instance; less so with dolphin.) 2) Once a selection is created, the ctrl and shift modifiers work much as they did on MS: 2a) Shift-click to range-extend the selection from the item last clicked. 2b) Ctrl-click to toggle selection of individual items. (Thus, one can start with a "rubber-band selection" to select several lines of icons including one or two more than you really wanted, then ctrl-click on the ones you did NOT want selected to un-select them while keeping the others selected.) 3) For those who prefer keyboard-only selection, as on MS, arrow keys navigate and space toggles an individual selection. 3a) Similar to #2, shift-space does a range-selection, and... 3b) Ctrl-space toggles individual icons in and out of the selection. 4) Additionally, KDE apps at least now generally have the hover-plus overlay-icon selection method, where hovering over an icon should produce a green "+" icon overlaid over the original icon, which if clicked should select that item, doing multi-select automatically if something else was already selected. Dolphin, gwenview and konqueror all three do this, I believe, as well as the plasma folderview plasmoid and container. 4a) If the icon is selected, there's a red minus-overlay icon (-) instead, allowing to unselect just that item. 5) The usual select-all keyboard shortcut is generally available as well. (Here it's the old MS ctrl-a shortcut, but I've so highly customized things here that IDR if that's the default or not.) Coupled with a selective-display feature such as dolphin's filters, this works well for selecting all of a particular type of file. Once the desired multi-selection is done, Kevin's copy/move instructions should work just fine. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
