On 08/15/2013 02:31 PM, Duncan wrote: > 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. >
>> 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... > > Once the desired multi-selection is done, Kevin's copy/move instructions > should work just fine. =:^) > I guess I was doing something wrong, but I just tried it again and it worked--I made a new directory, then selected a number of files from my Pictures dir and copied them to the new dir. That should make my life easier. Thanx to both of you. --doug Blessed are the peacemakers..for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M.Greeley ___________________________________________________ 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.
