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[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

You really can't imagine doing that with a GUI? Here you have something to give you an idea (sorry it's in Spanish, but I guess you can get an idea of how it may work):

Here I'm selecting a specific type of files (PDFs, but I can select several different types, as I'm organising by file type), after which I did a right click, and selected a contextual action that shows a popup to do a following action. In this case it's renaming, but it could easily be a "Move to..." that could include a check option of "Create a folder for each file". I mean, it was actually pretty fast too. It's not that difficult.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It wouldn't make sense to add clutter to a GUI that benefits a tiny fraction of users a tiny fraction of the time while making the experience worse for everyone else.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I can imagine making a GUI that does it. But most aren't able to. "That could include a check option of..." yeah it doesn't though, is my point. GUIs are for doing things manually.