Moving files in Files app

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Hi,

I am in the process of trying to move away from Windows and permanently to Linux. One simple thing I have been unable to achieve is how to move files around in the Files app. The directories that are shown in the left pane do not seem to have the abilty to expand them to show subfolders so I can’t do a drag and drop.

What I am trying to do right now is the following. I have an android phone connected and under my music folder I have a folder called Like. Under that I have a bunch of Artist folders containing mp3’s. Due to a restriction in the music player I am using I need to move all mp3’s just to the Like folder. I don’t want to do one folder at a time, so I was hoping I could do a search for all mp3’s and then drag them to the Like folder, but the search only seems to search the Like folder and not all the subfolders. Suggestions?

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You can use ctrl+A to select all directories and then keeping ctrl pressed click witch your mouse on any folder and it will be unselected. Also you didn’t tell which file manager you are using. In Dolphin there are these nice plus signs in the top left corner that you can with them select and unselect files.