Right Click Menu for Multiple Selection (file navigation, move, delete)

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At the moment when you right click, while having multiple files selected in the file explorer, the action is only performed on the file you right clicked on, not all of the files you had selected.

This breaks standard workflows such as selecting multiple files then moving them to a different vault folder or deleting them.

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This should also likely be linked:

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up up ! currently need these feature to tidy folder categories.

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+1
I often need to move multiple files at once which is not possible in Obsidian at the moment. It would be great if this could be implemented!

My workaround at the moment is moving the files within the Windows explorer.

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This basic functionality is crucial and am shocked it hasn’t been added yet as compared to many other seemingly superficial features. I hope it can be implemented soon so that I can stop opening windows explorer or working from VS Code and its far inferior notetaking extensions

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I would like this, but definitely don’t mind using the Windows Explorer in the meantime. However, I could definitely see this being helpful on Mobile, although I cannot speak from experience yet.

It could also be nice to add similar right click functionality to links, tags, or queries within a note. I will have to consider the potential downsides, but it feels like there is some potential workflow improvements. Perhaps even using a hybrid of the explorer and in note selections could be possible. I will return and link the feature request if I create one. Here’s the link: Note selections via in-note links, queries, and tags

Thanks.

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bump +1

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Yep, I absolutely support this FR!

Fell so often for marking files inside Obsidian using Shift-Click and Ctrl-Clicks (please don’t forget these!) and then realizing it only moves/deletes this one file.

Would be a great productivity enhancement.

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Having the same issue on Windows 10.

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+1 on this

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This weakness of the file explorer seems to also apply to plugins such as MetaEdit. If we fixed this at the core product level, I imagine the batch edit functionality would be unlocked for MetaEdit, enabling us to batch edit attributes through MetaEdit. This possibility has re-prioritized this feature request for me personally.

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+1 for me as well

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+1, would be a very handy feature to have. It’s possible to drag and drop multiple files but this becomes more difficult and tedious to do as one’s folder structure grows.

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+10086

we need it! right now!

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+1
The links won’t update themselves if notes are handled in the system explorer, making it a must to move them inside obsidian, which is a huge pain.

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Yes we really need this… it really break the sense of work flow when having to delete file one by one.

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Hi, this is a good piece of software but the lack of this feature makes it loose quite a bit… I mean this thread shouldn’t even exists, it’s such a basilar thing.

Hope this will be fixed. Thank’s.

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+1e6 !

What is the current progress on this request?

As a beginner, I can confirm this is one of the first and also most frequent things that slows down progress when organising files

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Use case or problem

When I select multiple files in the file browser side bar and then right click, I am presented with a menu of operations – that all only operate on the first file in my selection.

I’d like for the operations that are presented in the menu to apply to all of the files that I have selected (not just the first file)

Proposed solution

When multiple files are selected in the sidebar, and a user right clicks on them, only present a menu of operations that would operate on all of the files. Add support for the current ‘single file operations’ that exist:

  • Rename: maybe there is no ‘multiple’ operation for this one, in which case don’t show it in the menu :stuck_out_tongue:
  • Delete: confirm deleting all the files that are selected.
  • Open in new page: open all the selected files in new panes.
  • Move file to: “Move files to”…move all the files to whatever folder the user selects (this is the one I personally care about the most).
  • Open in default app: open all the selected files in their default app.
  • Show in system explorer: show all selected files in the system explorer.
  • View Sync version history: don’t show?
  • Merge entire file with…: “Merge files with…” - merge all of the selected files into the selected note.
  • Make a copy: Make a copy of each selected file.

Current workaround (optional)

Currently I can drag the files to a visible folder in the sidebar - for all other operatons there is no ‘multi file’ workaround that I know of, but one could perform the operation for each file individually.

Related feature requests (optional)

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At Least In Windows Multiple Move Does Not Work

In order to speed up file movement I would propose that you should be able to move multiple files into a single directory/folder at once. (For example multiple image files into a directory called images)

Proposed solution

What I would like to see done is the following:

  1. Select Multiple Files in File Explorer (You can do this now)
  2. Right Click
  3. Select Move
  4. Click the directory that you want to move the files to
  5. That ALL of the files will move - right now only one moves (whichever was selected first)

Current workaround (optional)

Right now I can highlight them all and then drag and drop them into the folder. This has become harder, however, as the number of my folders has become large.

Thanks for entertaining my idea.

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