replacement or supplement for Nautilus

[Paul Smith]

On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 08:52:48PM +0200, Gary J. Kirkpatrick wrote:
> 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.

This makes me wonder what method you USED to use, that doesn't work
anymore.  Every way that I've ever known to select all or select a
group of files still works for me (I assume when you say they removed a
feature, you mean in Ubuntu 18.04--you don't actually specify which
version you're using that is missing the feature you're looking for).

C-a for all (as pointed out): this is a common shortcut, like C-c, C-x, 
C-v, so maybe they don't bother to include it in all the different
shortcut lists.

Or, you can select a subset in list mode by clicking one, then shift-
click to select all the items between the first and the current, or
else ctrl-click to multi-select single files.

Or, in icon mode, you can select a rectangular group by click-drag to
draw a box around the files you want.