"Jump to target" in Open/Save dialogs on Drop

[minesworld]

Just like the MacOS handles it... For those who never experienced it: dragging a file into an open/save file dialog will jump to the enclosing folder and select the dropped file/folder. Its one of those features missing that gets (Ex-) Mac users crazy...

[Soromeister]

This video shows how this feature could be easily used in Windows OS. I'd love to see it implemented in PowerToys.

[enricogior]

@minesworld @Sorin-M-Oprea just to understand the user scenario, would you use this feature to open files or to select the destination folder when saving files? I'm asking because personally I would consider it more cumbersome than drag&drop for opening files.

[Soromeister]

@minesworld @Sorin-M-Oprea just to understand the user scenario, would you use this feature to open files or to select the destination folder when saving files? I'm asking because personally I would consider it more cumbersome than drag&drop for opening files.

It can be used for both actually.

• Imagine you are trying to open a file with CTRL + O. A Open File dialog appears. You already have the folder with the file to be opened in another explorer window (I know you can double click the file but bear with me here). This feature would allow you to easily switch the address in the Open File dialog window to the location that is already open in your other explorer window.
• Now take the above example, except you are on the Save As dialog window. You'd easily switch to the location where you want to save the file to and from there onward you simply use the Save As dialog to define the name and (possibly) the extension of the file.

This is the only feature that made me purchase Listary and it's the only feature that I use from Listary (specifically when saving files). It still works but Listary crashes every now and then and development stopped.

So it's just a matter of getting the address bar location from one window to the other faster. Instead of clicking on the address bar, selecting everything there, copy, then switch to the other window and paste on the address bar, this would be much easier to do in 2 clicks.

[robertheadley]

I didn't used to want this feature, since it is basically the killer app of Listary, but Listary appears to be dead, or at least he develper has gone silent.

[TTTPOB]

hmmm, has this feature request been adopted?

[xrq-phys]

Not yet AFAIK.

[Hunter-Time]

Any news for this feature? I really need this to become a viable tool for windows, it will be game changing for my day-to-day workflow

[robertheadley]

I still believe that this is a valid feature that should be implimented in Powertoys Run if you want it to be comparitive to other tools in this category.

[robertheadley]

In general, I would prefer to use an open source app like Powertoys run instead of a close source app like Listary. This is generally the one feature keeping me and I imagine lots of other people from switching.