replacement or supplement for Nautilus

[Liam Proven]

On Fri, 14 Sep 2018 at 16:38, Gary J. Kirkpatrick <garyartista at gmail.com> wrote:
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> For the first time in the 10 years I have been using Ubuntu I am not happy with the file manager.  I think Gnome removed a very useful feature.  I want to be able to select all the files in a directory to copy or move.  There does not appear to be a way to do so.

I hat to install 18.04-1 in a VM to check, but yes it does.

You press Ctrl-A, same as basically every file manager on every OS on
the planet, or you can right-click on a blank bit of background in a
folder and pick "select all" from the context menu.

If you are looking for a replacement file manager, I recommend Nemo.

It's a fork of the old version of GNOME 3 Nautilus (now called
"Files") before the GNOME 3 team started ripping out all the features.
It still has lots of nice stuff like multiple panes, a tree view in
the left pane, a disk space meter and more. I use it in Unity on
16.04.

It works fine with Unity and GNOME 3 and doesn't have that many
dependencies because it's built on Gtk3 the same as they are.

If you want, you can use Nemo to manage your desktop, but be warned,
this will break if you upgrade to a new version of Ubuntu. For that
reason I no longer do so.

Caja from MATE is based on an older, GNOME 2 codebase. It's also fine
but will pull in more stuff you don't really need, and I don't think
it can manage your desktop.

There are tons of 3rd party ones which won't integrate with GNOME at
all but are perfectly good if that's what you want, but Nemo
integrates more closely and with less overhead than anything else.

However, even the castrated "Files" app in GNOME 3.30 can still do
"Select all". I do not know where you were looking for it -- one of
the things the devs have ripped out is the menu bar and toolbar -- but
it is still there and it still works.

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