SW file moving using Win utility

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SW file moving using Win utility

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In Win-10 file explorer, when I right hand click a file > Solidworks > Move file > (define a folder path) it works well enough. If I move a part it knows if there is an associated drawing & confirms you want that moved too which is nice (but not the other way around).

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1) it would be nice if it would remember the last subfolder destination as a likely target for the next one. Instead it defaults to the folder the part currently resides in. So click-click-click... with every file. Is there a shorter, more efficient way or setting that controls this?

2) Because... it does not seem to like if I pre-select multiple files to move to another folder. I can see this would be problematic with re-naming but moving shouldn't be an issue. Am I missing something?

(I'm aware of pack & go but I'm trying to physically move part files elsewhere & have any of their associations maintained to other assemblies which reference them.

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Re: SW file moving using Win utility

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Try Bibotac. With it you can use Windows Explorer directly to manage your files without loosing links (You can rename or move, cut and paste folders or files).

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Re: SW file moving using Win utility

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Very interesting, thanks! I never heard of Bibotac before
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Re: SW file moving using Win utility

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what I do is once I have the folder I setup is go to the folder string in the explore bar and copy the location then when you have to move many you just paste the address and Bam done.
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