A way (app?) to select consecutive items (shift-click in Windows)

ljubo_opaki · Oct 25, 2012

Is there a way to select multiple consecutive items (files) in Android?

E.g. if I want to upload all the photos I took in the last 2 months (say 300 of them), I don't want to scroll and tap each and every single one of those 300.
I want to only tap the first and the last of those (while they're sorted by datetime).

Thanks

SkyJackpot · Oct 25, 2012

Download free application called "x-plore" from Android Store

Setup Google Picasa, Google Drive or Microsoft Skydive account in"x-plore" application

Go to folder containing all the pictures you need to upload in the "x-plore" application

Click the chck mark / tick next to the side of that folder name which has your picture, then un-tick it again

You'll find that all the pictures l now have a tick symbol beside their names in that folder
You can now simply copy those pictures to a folder in one of the accounts you setup like Google Picasa or Google Drive for example, and then they will begin uploading one by one

Typed out using SwiftKey, only available for Android ツ :thrasher:

ljubo_opaki · Oct 25, 2012

SkyJackpot said:
Download free application called "x-plore" from Android Store

Setup Google Picasa, Google Drive or Microsoft Skydive account in"x-plore" application

Go to folder containing all the pictures you need to upload in the "x-plore" application

Click the chck mark / tick next to the side of that folder name which has your picture, then un-tick it again

You'll find that all the pictures l now have a tick symbol beside their names in that folder
You can now simply copy those pictures to a folder in one of the accounts you setup like Google Picasa or Google Drive for example, and then they will begin uploading one by one

Typed out using SwiftKey, only available for Android ツ :thrasher:

I may have not been clear enough. I want to select e.g. 300 files in a folder with 2000 files. The 300 files are consecutive in the folder, they go one after the other, they are not scattered around the folder in no order.

To select these files in Windows, I would click the first of the 300 consecutive files, and then shift+click the last of those. Then all the ones between the two would be selected as well.

I want this in Android.

UrsusVIIILXXXVII · Oct 25, 2012

I use Solid Explorer. You can select multiple files by tapping the file icon or thumbnail. A check appears over each file icon and a small popup menu appears at the bottom. From there you can choose the usual copy, cut, delete or share to other apps including cloud apps. I've used it quite a bit to upload pictures to Dropbox.

mineeeh · Oct 26, 2012

This problem is the reason I joined this forum and also one of the main reasons for my considering dumping android and going back to Windows. Is there no way this is fixable?!

Crashdamage · Oct 27, 2012

I don't believe exactly what you want can be done with Android or iOS. Windows Phone will? I'd be surprised if it will.

chanchan05 · Oct 27, 2012

Windows Phone 7 can't AFAIK. Not sure for Windows 8, as that's more similar to desktop underneath the UI than WP7

bberryhill0 · Oct 27, 2012

That would be fairly easy to implement with a long press but I don't know of a file manager that does it.

SkyJackpot · Oct 28, 2012

Introducing File Manger by Jumbo Software, RANGE SELECT included.

Just press the multi-select key, then after that long-press on the desired photo or file that you wish to start the selection from. When you long-press that photo or file a menu will appear with one of the options called "Start range select".

Click "Start range select" and then move all the way down to the file that you wish the selection range to end, and then click that file. Now all chosen files only in the range you want will be selected without you having to select all of them individually one by one.

This File Manager by Jumbo Software is available in free and paid versions and the Web link below is for the free version.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.co.jumble.android.filemanager&hl=en

Typed out using SwiftKey, only available for Android ツ :thrasher:

tcat007 · Oct 28, 2012

Just tried this, works as OP wants. Wish other explorers did this, very handy. Don't like the layout or function as well as X-plore, and all the menu text is cropped off (about the lower 1/3) and not very readable.

SkyJackpot said:
Introducing File Manger by Jumbo Software, RANGE SELECT included.

Just press the multi-select key, then after that long-press on the desired photo or file that you wish to start the selection from. When you long-press that photo or file a menu will appear with one of the options called "Start range select".

Click "Start range select" and then move all the way down to the file that you wish the selection range to end, and then click that file. Now all chosen files only in the range you want will be selected without you having to select all of them individually one by one.

This File Manager by Jumbo Software is available in free and paid versions and the Web link below is for the free version.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.co.jumble.android.filemanager&hl=en

Typed out using SwiftKey, only available for Android ツ :thrasher:

mineeeh · Oct 28, 2012

Just downloaded and tried out Jumbo Software File Manager as SkyJackpot suggested - works perfectly! Just what I needed, thanks so much!

SkyJackpot said:
Introducing File Manger by Jumbo Software, RANGE SELECT included.

Just press the multi-select key, then after that long-press on the desired photo or file that you wish to start the selection from. When you long-press that photo or file a menu will appear with one of the options called "Start range select".

Click "Start range select" and then move all the way down to the file that you wish the selection range to end, and then click that file. Now all chosen files only in the range you want will be selected without you having to select all of them individually one by one.

This File Manager by Jumbo Software is available in free and paid versions and the Web link below is for the free version.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.co.jumble.android.filemanager&hl=en

Typed out using SwiftKey, only available for Android ツ :thrasher:

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