First off, I'd like to say thanks for a wonderful module! I don't know what I would do without it.

Anyway, I would like to request the ability to delete multiple assets at once through the asset wizard... for example, to be able to shift or ctrl click on files, press the delete button, and confirm the deletion of all selected files.

Without this feature it is painful and time consuming to delete many files within a given directory without deleting the directory (say you want to delete 50 of 100 files from a directory -- the only option currently is to select a single file, click delete, click delete again to confirm, and repeat 49 times).

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HansBKK commented

+1

If the multiple select is too hard for now, at least give an option to turn off the 2nd click to confirm "feature"

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HansBKK commented

Probably should create a new issue, but don't want to be (much more of) a pest in this queue.

Also give the ability to multi-select a batch of files to upload in one pass, giving a table-like layout for copying and pasting the author and description info in.

And in the selection process, could the browser PLEASE remember the last folder as it does during uploading?

I've got thousands of files to upload, so all that clicking makes for a boring job :)

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wmostrey commented

If you've got thousands of files, then you should use asset import. Looking at the support and feature requests you've spawned for the asset import module, it looks like you've already figured that out. So I'll ignore #2 and concentrate on the original request and #1.

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HansBKK commented

Asset Import's two main problems for me are

1 the path in the files table gets the double slash syntax: http://drupal.org/node/317217

which results in Audit Files module listing all files so imported as orphans - I assume there are other consequences as well but haven't done any testing.

and 2 the import doesn't let me specify the destination directory in my tree: http://drupal.org/node/317439 (just created)

To me this is one of the critical advantages of Asset over Upload/Image/Imagefield file handling. Maybe I'm being anal-retentive, but I like using the file system to organize things, not just having everything in the one folder.

Especially given the fact that I won't have nodes for most of my images so don't have the ability to use node-related organising methods like taxonomy.

Since Asset Import is presumably targeted toward sites with lots of images to upload, I would think this is an important needed feature.

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wmostrey commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)