FlatView - Restrict To Selected Sub-Folders?

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FlatView allows one "to see all the files in all sub-folders under any folder path".

I would like to be able to Select a Couple of Sub-Folders, and then have the FlatView generated using just the Selected Folders.

Possible?

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Flat view is pretty straight forward, it lets you see the contents of the folder you are in along with the contents of all its subfolders. If you want to combine two or more folders in flat view, go to a folder you want, put it in flat view, select all the files and assign them to a collection. Do the same for the other folder(s) you want and assign them to the same collection. Go to that collection and when you're done doing what you need to do, just delete the collection.

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Thanks for the suggestion. I had not used Collections, and Sub-Collections before. Your suggestion - encouraged me to give Collections a try. Unfortunately, I'm still looking for a Solution. When I wrote "Select a Couple of Sub-Folders" that suggested too small of number of Sub-Folders. This time, the problem I was looking to resolve involved about 14 Sub-Folders. Using Collections - one at a time, would eventually become tedious .

As a work around, in this case, I can just move these 14 Sub-Folders out of the root of my hard drive, and put them into their own new sub-folder. FlatView will be fine then, showing these 14 Sub-Folders.

Having an option or setting to Restrict Flat-View to the Currently selected Sub-Folders, seems like a useful idea to me. (Where is the Best place to submit such a suggestion?)

Other suggestions?

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You can use the Find Panel (via the Tools menu) to search for * within all of the folders in question (after dragging & dropping them on it).

You can also create a button which runs the Find command against all the selected folders with a single click. (Not sure of the syntax off the top of my head but it should be fairly simple.)

It's also possible to apply a filter to which folders are shown in Flat View mode, but that's probably the most complex method and only worth doing if you want something "live" instead of the collection snapshots. Not sure if it could work based on the selected folders, either.

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Thanks. The Find Panel worked fine for my issue. Appreciate it.