i agree with what donquixote mentioned in this thread: http://drupal.org/node/647916
The ideal way would be a folder navigation (so the list doesn't grow too big), but this would deserve a new issue.
did not find such issue, so I am creating one. In its current stat its almost impossible to import larger amounts of images into multiple galleries (I use node gallery, dev version of this module is already integrated with node gallery, and this is what I need to do - import many files from different folders, each folder represents different gallery in node gallery).
currently this module lists all files in upload folder and its subfolders, and in case of more files this screen gets really long and almost unusable.
BTW - is there another way how to import many files/images into nodes (1 file per node) from directory on the server?