Comments on: Help me send to a new folder via right-click in XP

Question: Help me send to a new folder via right-click in XP

Kwantsar — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 13:30:42 -0800

I want "send to a new folder" to be on my "send to" right-click menu (XP)

In XP, you can right-click, and send your files plenty of places. You can download sendtotoys, and that gives you a bunch of options, but no new folder option. You can scour the internet, and find this this tool. But that tool gives me a runtime error (#52, to be precise). The author hasn't replied to my emails, and I have uninstalled and reinstalled the runtime files as well as the (very small) program itself.

So, mefites, tell me: How can I send to a new folder with a right click on a file?

By: Cranberry

Cranberry — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 13:57:47 -0800

In XP, I can right click a file in a folder, select cut, open the new folder and right click, then select paste. Your software might vary.

By: StickyCarpet

StickyCarpet — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 14:03:40 -0800

Kwanster: you're asking for a selection that makes the new folder and puts the file in it, right? Sounds handy.

By: middleclasstool

middleclasstool — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 14:06:33 -0800

No, if I'm reading him right, he wants to create a new folder and copy that file to the folder in a single action just by right-clicking on the file and choosing a custom "send to" option.

You'll need third-party software to do this, or roll your own. I'm pretty sure you could do something like this with a batch file.

By: middleclasstool

middleclasstool — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 14:06:55 -0800

Whoops, that "No" was for Cranberry.

By: Kwantsar

Kwantsar — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 14:07:08 -0800

Yes, StickyCarpet, indeed I am. And I agree with your assessment. If Cranberry was snarking, I hope s/he sees the light about the handiness of the little feature.

By: Kwantsar

Kwantsar — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 14:08:51 -0800

And middleclasstool, I can barely nest three IF statements in Excel without convulsing, so rolling my own would be quite an endeavor. I just wish the little third-party program I found actually worked.

By: kcm

kcm — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 14:11:19 -0800

sendtotoys WFM on XP. Send To -> Folder -> Make New Folder.

By: tiamat

tiamat — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 14:18:32 -0800

Where would you expect/want the folder to be? I can imagine scripting this with a simple bat file assuming you'd put all the new folders in the same place, but not if you expected to be able to first pick the location of the folder.

By: Kwantsar

Kwantsar — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 14:22:37 -0800

kcm- I feel like a bit of a dumbass, for not noticing that, and thanks for pointing it out. It's the next-best thing, but it's not exactly what I'm looking for-- too many keystrokes.

Ideally, I right click, choose "send to new folder," and with no other input, a new folder is created on the desktop, containing the item(s) I selected.

By: dsword

dsword — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 14:27:14 -0800

This page gives the steps for adding commands to right click menus and seems pretty easy to follow. You can make a simple batch file to do the actual work. Something like this should work:

mkdir "New Folder"
move %1 "New Folder"

and have it run with the filename as the parameter.

By: dsword

dsword — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 14:28:13 -0800

That will run into problems if you already have a folder called New Folder, however.

By: alasdair

alasdair — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 15:50:52 -0800

Extending the Windows Shell has a step-by-step guide to do exactly what you want but has two drawbacks: first, it assumes you care about how the code you're using works, and second, all the images are missing, which makes it less clear.