Scrap container - file selection

[rogers]

Hi,

I'm a little bit confused about this:

When I select a non-empty folder, click the "Find" button and search for files named "*.*" (or anything else), the Scrap container will be filled with a lot of files.

Now, when I select some of these files and right-click them, I expect to get the usual Explorer context-menu, but this does not always happen. Sometimes I get a menu with parts of the Scrap container's "File" menu. I cannot fidle out which rule causes the different behaviors.

BTW: I would prefer to always get the Explorer context-menu, to e.g. RAR all selected files.

[nikos]

unfortunately there's no documented way to do shell context menu for items belonging to different folders; m$ didn't release what they're doing with their find results dialog

if we are talking about RAR-ing the results, what i do is create a new rar file, open it in winrar and then drag-dropping the selection from the scrap window

another workaround would be to create a temporary folder and paste hard links of the selected items in it; that should be very fast and have near zero hard disk space penalties; then you can access the normal shell context menu. This trick is possible when all the files are from the same NTFS partition

[rogers]

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if we are talking about RAR-ing the results, what i do is create a new rar file, open it in winrar and then drag-dropping the selection from the scrap window

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Ah, thanks for the answer.