Absolutely any information that is present and added to the computer is contained in files and has its own dimensions, as well as formats. In order for these files not to be scattered throughout the computer, and also not have to search for them for a long time, users create folders and call them by their corresponding names. Folders can be used for various needs, and in this way you can separate some files from others. For example, you can cite the most popular folders that you probably had to create at least once, or rather, these folders have names (music, photos, documents, games, and so on). Today we decided to tell you about several ways to select all the files in a folder.
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Before conducting any operation with files, they will need to be highlighted. You can select files in different ways, it all depends on how many files you should allocate, or rather, you can select one file, a certain number of files, or all files in a row contained in a specific folder. If you need to know how to quickly select all the files, then for this case you can use a mouse or keyboard. Everything is simple.
Traditional manipulator
Let's first analyze the option of how to select all the files in a folder with the mouse. To do this, you will need to use the left mouse button first, it will be it that will carry out the selection, and with the right mouse button you can already perform a specific task. For example, you can copy files, delete them or move to the desired location. Let's move on to the step-by-step instructions.
First you need to open the folder that contains the necessary files. Place the cursor on a free space, for example, at the very top of the folder, then press the left mouse button and begin to drag the cursor from the first file to the very last. In this case, you select all the files at once. When the necessary files have been selected, you need to click the right mouse button, and a context menu will appear in front of you , where you can select a specific operation. Now you know how to immediately select all the files with the mouse, and if you carefully read the instructions, then you can immediately understand that there is nothing complicated about it.
Use the keys
Now consider the option of how to copy files from a folder using the mouse and keyboard at the same time. In order to select the necessary files, you will need to use special combinations on the keyboard, as well as the left mouse button. In this version, we decided to give several ways at once, so please read carefully.
The first way. Open the necessary folder with the files, and then press the combination “Ctrl + A” on the keyboard. If the files for some reason were not copied, then you should pay attention to the keyboard layout, it must be switched to English. This method is only suitable for selecting all the files contained in a folder at once.
The second way. Select the first file in the folder with the mouse cursor , then hold down the “Shift” button on the keyboard and use the wheel to go to the very bottom of the folder. Next, click on the last file with the left mouse button. All files in the folder will be selected, but using this method you can also select a certain number of files by simply left-clicking on them.
The third way. First you need to left-click on the desired file, then on the keyboard hold and hold the “Ctrl” button, and then simply select the necessary files for selection. You can select all the necessary files, and then give them the necessary command.
Conductor
Now we will consider how to select all the files in a folder using the command options of the folder menu. In any Windows operating system, folders open in new windows, they have a special line in which various menu commands are located, among all the possibilities there are also actions to select all or certain files. Let's look at how this is done now.
First you need to open the desired folder. If you have installed the operating system “Windows 7”, then you need to immediately run the “Arrange” command, and then just click on the “Select All” function.
If you work with the Windows XP operating system, then you need to act a little differently. Click "Edit", and then - "Select all files." As you can see, the question of how to select all the files in a folder is not so complicated. Moreover, there are many options for solving it.
Total commander
Now briefly consider how to select files in the “total”. First of all, open the Total Commander program, then select the highlight function in a special menu, and then click select all. In principle, in the program you can use all the methods that we wrote above.