Bulk move (or copy) files from outgoing files pane

Feature requests
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Two use cases / problems

Concerning this outgoing links pane:

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Rearrangement of files

I would like to be able to rearrange the file location of outgoing-linked files. Right now its only possible to drag&drop each file seperately to a different folder, but it would be very nice to be able to bulk select all outgoing file-links and drag them all together to a new folder.

Creating Copy of linked files for sharing

I frequently want to share notes, which have some links in it. Being able to copy all outgoing-linked files to a new folder, would be very helpful, because I wouldn’t have to search for each linked file seperately.

Proposed solution

  1. Possibility to bulk select all outgoing links
  2. drag&drop with left-click => move files to different folder
  3. drag&drop with right-click => open context menu with possibilty to choose “copy files to folder”
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If exporting notes including its images is what you ultimately are after, then the community plugin “Markdown export” may be suited. With it, you can export a single note or a folder of notes to a folder either within of outside of your Obsidian vault. It will place your .md note or notes in the folder you indicate, and add all assets to a subfolder “attachments”.

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Hi,
Thanks for the tip with markdown export.
Yes, sharing notes is one usecase, but it’s not the main focus. The main focus of my request (maybe I wasn’t clear enough) is to be able to bulk-move the outgoing-linked files to a different folder.
… As it’s also possible in the folder-pane on the left side to bulk-move several files, it also should be possible in the outgoing-links-pane…

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