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pasting paths into scrap container, opening in multiple tabs

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I right-clicked on a tab and clicked Copy All Paths. Then I open a new scrap container, right-click inside the empty container, and click Paste. Sometimes the folders that were open in the tabs appear in the scrap container, but other times it doesn't work. I heard a "Ding" and a message appears that "some items could not be located".

Also, after right-clicking on a tab and clicking Copy All Paths, I have pasted into a text editor. A comma-delimited list of paths appears. I've tried copying this list in the text editor, and then pasting into a scrap container. This doesn't work; I get the "ding" and the "some items could not be located" message. I can highlight and copy the paths in the text editor, one at a time, and paste them into the scrap container. But if I try to paste two paths at once (separated by a comma), I get the ding.

Is there a way to open a comma-delimited list of paths, either in a scrap container, or directly in multiple tabs?
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I highlighted some folders and pressed Alt+C, and pasted into a text file. The paths appeared on separate lines, not comma-delimited. I highlighted and copied this list. Then I pasted into a scrap container - this worked. If I do a Copy All Paths, paste into editor, replace the commas with CRLF, then paste into a scrap container, that also works.
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Re: pasting paths into scrap container, opening in multiple tabs

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copy all paths from tab menu is meant for find files dialog, where the LOOK IN field expects comma separated paths
scrap containers expect paths with newlines
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Re: pasting paths into scrap container, opening in multiple tabs

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I'm confused. I right-clicked my tab bar and then clicked Copy All Paths. Then I right-clicked in a pane and then Paste. I wondered what that would do, since it is text, a comma-separated list of paths. I thought the most likely result was that the text would be put in an x2scrap.txt file in the folder I did the paste operation in. If I was lucky, I thought it might paste a LNK to each of the listed folders. That could be useful. Boy was I (unpleasantly) surprised - it MOVED (not copied!) the folders to the folder in that pane. Is this what should happen?

On the other hand, if I did an Alt+C on selected folders, what gets pasted to the clipboard is a <CR><LF> delimited list of paths, and when I do the same paste operation into the folder, I did get the x2scrap.txt file.
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if you (tab)-copy all paths, then "paste" in a scrap container, you should get the tabs as folders in the scrap
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