Create a New Folder Containing Selected Items in Mac OS X Lion
Aug 7, 2011 - 9 Comments
You can now select any number of files from the Mac OS X desktop or a folder and create a new folder containing those selected items:
- Select files you want to create a new folder containing
- Right-click on one of the selected files and choose “New Folder with Selection (x items)”
You can also select the items and go from the “File” menu in the Finder to the same “New Folder with Selection” option, but right-clicking is quicker. There’s supposed to be a keyboard shortcut to do this too, Control+Command+N, but it doesn’t seem to work on any of the Macs I’ve tested, give it a try and maybe it will work for you.
This alongside the ability to cut and paste files finally in Mac OS X are two of the more subtle but useful enhancements to the file system in 10.7.
Control+Command+N worked for me. It created a folder named “New Folder With Items.”
Command+Z put everything back with no changes.
Nice tip, thanks.
For those who can’t get the shortcut to work:
When it didn’t work for me I found that the shortcut was occupied by Evernote. I uninstalled Evernote (as I didn’t used it anyway) and the shortcut worked right away.
So, if it’s not working, it’s probably because some other program has overruled the shortcut.
Thanks for the tip!
Control+Command+N worked for me. great advice, thanks!
Sweet! This is becoming one of my favourite sites. Great tips and tricks. Control+Command+n worked for me just great. (MBA 13″ 2010 pre-Lion) Thanks and Cheers!
Indeed, I bookmarked your site as well. Keep up the good work!
Works too well. Did it without askin anything like where or if.
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I had it works earlier, 15 minutes ago, but not anymore. All the files I was working on were stored on an external hard drive. I was able to create ‘new folder with selected files’ feature. But now, that feature is disable when I work on another set of files. why?
It works, on my MBP 2012 retina