Moving files in COntent Explorer

[MarinaMichaels]

Belatedly, I have decided to have subfolders in the Content Explorer to better organize the files (I was just using a file naming process). However, I haven't been able to figure out how to move more than one file at a time. Is there any way I can select a bunch of files and drag them all into a subfolder at one time?

[MarinaMichaels]

I found it. Show Files....

[kevinmcl]

I got to this thread - thanks for the reminder, I'd forgotten about "Show Files" - after failing to move ONE file from the Content directory to a sub-directory.

I tried dragging, but my Content directory was too large, and the Content Explorer doesn't scroll when you drag a file. But before I came and found this thread, I tried something else that also failed.

In Content Explorer, if you select a file and right-click, you get a menu of things to do with the file:

Preview
Open
Open with
Source control
Cut
Copy
Paste
Delete
Rename
Convert to XML
Send to Folder
Properties
View Links
Locate in ToC

Now, if you were me, you'd think you'd discovered just the ticket with that "Send to Folder" option. When you read it, it looks almost like it should send the selected file to a named folder. You'd think. And it does do that... but it DOESN'T do that. What do I mean?

I highlighted my errant file, right-clicked, selected "Send to Folder", and in the resulting dialog box, I selected the "Administration" directory (a sub-directory of Content) as the destination, and clicked "OK".

Flare went away and did whatever Flare does.

But.... hmmm... the file was still in Content. And when I looked in Content/Administration... it wasn't there. CRUD, sez I.

I must have accidentally Sent another file. I'll do it again, more carefully. Same thing.
CRUD!! sez I.

After trying, in vain, the View menu and the Window menu ... and even the File menu, looking for a "refresh" command, I came to the forums and searched. That's how I got to this thread. "Oh yeah, sez I - that button."

So I clicked the button, got the split Content Explorer view, and dragged my file where I wanted it to go. The file went.... well, not so fast. NOW Flare speaks up (or it's Windows), telling me that the file already exists at the destination and do I want to overwrite it? (If you are reading carefully, you realize that Windows or Flare - whoever is talking in that dialog - is seeing the file in TWO places, which is also not good.)

So I OK the overwrite, and ONLY NOW does Flare present the option to update all the links to/from the file.

So-so-so-o-o-o-ooo it appears to me that the right-click menu item "Send to Folder..." is actually a command to "Copy to folder and don't make any fuss about silly things like links, and don't show the copied file at its new location".

Can anybody tell me where that is useful functionality? My imagination is failing me on this one. And I usually have a capable-if-macabre imagination...

Oh, and I'm using Flare 7.2 on Windows 7.

- kevin

[MarinaMichaels]

This is a really, really late reply, but in working with Flare, especially when moving files around, I sometimes need to refresh a folder before changes show. (Select the folder, press F5.) Sometimes I need to refresh the folder a few times, or navigate away from it and then back and then refresh, before Flare updates the view to show me the changes. This is true for both changes within Flare as well as changes to files in an external resource.

[LTinker68]

I've seen that happen more when the project is hosted on a shared file store instead of on the local computer.