Publish UI shows all files (Changed/Unchanged/New) as open folders. There is no quick way to collapse (or expand) all folders, so you are left with manually toggling folders open or closed.
Include an option to quickly collapse or expand folders, similar to the Collapse All community plugin which targets the core File Explorer.
Lots and lots and lots of clicking or scrolling! 
Please!
Bumping this⌠I have a vault with 50k files and MAAAAAN is it slow to view the ânewâ pane.
When I publish, the âNewâ section opens with all directories unfolded (and in reverse alphabetical order to boot!). It takes forever to fold-up all the folders to find the one I want to publish.
Have all folders under the âNewâ section folded so that we could quickly navigate to the folder we need.
This is what the âNewâ section looks like when I open it. I have to unfold them all individually until I get to âFoodâ which is 3/4 of the way down!
Hi Obsidian Team!
Love Obsidian Publish 
, it works well and Iâm more than happy to pay for it.
What has been difficult is that when I publish and âAdd linkedâ - I canât see quickly which pages will now be uploaded. That has resulted in a few âOh, shitâ moments yesterday where I published notes that I didnât want the world to see.
A simple solution would be to show the list of selected files instead of having to dig through the âNEWâ section.
Yeah, I had a close call yesterday, @akaalias. 
+1 on the suggested fix.
Although, just to be safe, Iâve decided to keep all notes I intend to publish in a separate Vault. Iâm using a different theme for the public Vault so I donât forget which one Iâm in.
My main Vault does not have the Publisher plugin enabled, but it does have access to the Public folder. So I can make edits from my main Vault, but I only publish from the Vault that only sees the public folder. -At least thatâs the plan. Still testingâŚ
Changing this to a feature request
Really important point. As Iâve been trying out the Publish Service, Iâve been really cautious about not inadvertently publishing files with content Iâd rather not share.
Some might say that you should just keep private stuff in a separate vault. But that has huge downsides. For example, my âpeopleâ files contain information about when I met someone as well as information about their research. For my own personal use, itâs important to have those be in the same vault. Generally, as others have remarked, a single-vault approach has huge advantages. Itâs great that Obsidianâs Publish Service allows lots of control over which files and folders are included. The only difficulty is that once my published vault has hundreds of files, itâs going to very hard to go through them one-by-one.
So it seems to me that there are two functions that new features need to provide:
Transparency: itâs important to see what has been selected, and the âAdd Linksâ function has us currently flying blind. Thatâs the point that @akaalias is highlighting.
Batch selection & exclusion: But what would also be really helpful is a way of, for example, excluding any file that contains the #private tag. So I think that advanced searching in the publish plugin is a much-needed feature.
BTW: in the meantime, I have this workaround:
Kudgy, but it works.
+1 on the #private tag idea. Super simple.
+1 on the #private tag idea
Or alternatively, a #publish tag for the files youâd like to publish. That way if you included a search in the publish changes screen you could just search #publish and select all results, rather than having to sift through all your files
Why not both? 
Joking aside, I believe we should be able to filter on or off a tag. There are situations when you want to include everything that has this or that tag, and sometimes you want to include everything but.
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When publishing, I want the files being published to be very clearly displayed so I know exactly what Iâm publishing.
Show all files being published with their full paths up front, instead of in the folders.
The current method requires me to expand each folder and check exactly which files are being published.
EDIT: adding some visual context
This would be nice to have as I have a very large vault and many folders ^-^;;;
Additional proposed solutions
/compendium/pf2e/monster.md...... New!
/publish/images/monster.png....... New!
- [ ] Compendium >
- [ ] CSS >
- [ ] D20 >
- [ ] Publish >
- [ ] Compendium >
- - [ ] PF2e >
- - - monster.md..... New!
- [ ] CSS >
- [ ] D20 >
- [ ] Publish >
- - Images >
- - - monster.png....... New!
How can I vote this up higher?
@borromakot 's diagrams are very helpful, and it could be very easily implemented by just adding the background highlight on the files-to-be-published parent folders and expanding them by default.