Nemo: [Feature Request] New Folder from Selection

[highwindmx]

Some of my friends told me that there is a function call "New Folder from Selection" is coming in the new nautilus, it acts like following:
For example, files in folder: Pic01,Pic02,...,Pic10 ; after select these files and right click them, the "New Folder from Selection" in menu will make a folder called "Pic"(some common name from these files) and move all selected files into this folder.
In order to do so,I make a nemo-actions:
Name=Put them into same folder
Exec=
Quote=double

Code in this python:

!/usr/bin/env python3

import os
import sys
from time import time,localtime,strftime
import shutil

time-tag as the default folder name if the foldername is exist, better solutions?

DefPath=strftime("%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S",localtime(time()))
AllPath=[]
for i in sys.argv[1:]:
AllPath.append(i)
CommonPath=os.path.commonprefix(AllPath)
isExists=os.path.exists(CommonPath)
if not isExists:
pass
else:
CommonPath=os.path.join(CommonPath,DefPath)

move selected files to the target folder

os.makedirs(CommonPath)
for i in sys.argv[1:]:
shutil.move(i,CommonPath)

I just learned python this month, so I think there must be someone can make it better.

[anandrkris]

:+1: for this feature, would be much useful for me arranging stuff in my Downloads folder. Eg: Move all *srt files into folder called subtitles. It works in the version of Nautilus I recently installed on Cinnamon. Although, the new folder name in my case was just "New Folder"

[andrew160]

:+1:

[alextpedro]

[byaruhaf]

+1

[Vahan86]

@JosephMcc, can we mark the issue as a feature request?

[mxa]

I'd imagine it like this: I select a couple of items in a folder. Right-click and choose something like "move to new folder". This action will make a new folder, move the files into it and let's me name that folder. Miss this function very much!

[JosephMcc]

'd imagine it like this: I select a couple of items in a folder. Right-click and choose something like "move to new folder". This action will make a new folder, move the files into it and let's me name that folder. Miss this function very much!

Not sure how this is really saving you much over right-click->new folder, drag and drop the files to it.

[mxa]

Let's say it is a media directory and there are about 50 folders in there and 200 files. Down at the letter s you have tree files you would like to put in a folder. Making a new folder will place this at the letter N amongst fhe folders. Even naming it the same as the files will group it amongst the folders. It is messy.

[JosephMcc]

Fair point.

[JosephMcc]

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