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Not explorer, but the PDF application, butI believe I misunderstood what was happening.
You grab a bunch of files, and put them in a new folder with other files
Do you move the files, or do you just copy them?
Do the other files need to be in the same work space?
Are you then moving the files to a third location, or putting them back where they came from?
I'm just grabbing a handful of files from one file explorer window and then dumping them into a different window.
In windows 10 it would keep those recently dumped files highlighted so I could immediately move them somewhere else or deselvt a few or add some more before I moved those all into a folder within that window.
In windows 11 as soon as I paste them into the new window it de-selects all of the things I just pasted even though visual they still appear to be highlighted. When I go to move them it'll only grab the one I'm actually clicking and dragging on.
Oh, what about putting it all in an empty folder? Then when you are done you can Ctrl a everything and move it?
Because sometimes I need to see them along with other files and deselect some or add others. I need it to sort into the other files and stay highlighted so I can see where the ones I just moved went while also being able to grab them again immediately.
I don't understand why the functionality would change between windows 10 and 11 and I don't understand how I can only find like 2 other posts about it and neither of them have any comments.
My guess is that they removed the functionality, probably because people complain about opening a ton of files at once
I just decided to download one command. I figure I can probably set it up to work the way I need. Sucks because I did like many of the changes 11 brought to the file system. Oh well. 2 steps forward and 37 back is the Microsoft motto these days.