Title pretty much says it. I'm used to shift-select or ctrl-select allowing me to select multiple items in a tree to cut/past/drag/drop; That isn't working, so I'm wondering if there's an added hotkey needed to allow me to move multiple sub-folders from one main folder to another.
Use case (if anyone cares): I store all my travel plans in subfoloders under a Travel-Future top level folder (TLF). Once I've completed the travel, it gets moved to a Travel-Completed TLF. That Completed folder has gotten unwieldy, especially on mobile, so I woudl like to move the substantially older folders into a third TLF ...-Archive.
I moved a hundred or so one at a time earlier today, but I'm curious if there is a faster way to achieve the same. This would be especially useful for several folders which have outgrown their usefulness due to size and need to be split or sub-divided for better organization.
I just came up with this idea but I'm not at home right now and can't verify it you'll have to look at it and give it a try but it should help you.
Workaround Options
1. Use Joplin's Export/Import Feature
You can export selected notebooks and re-import them into a new location:
- Right-click each of the six sub-notebooks and export them as .jex (Joplin Export File).
- Create a new parent notebook.
- Import the .jex files into that notebook.
I'm not sure if it will be faster but I don't think that there is a way to select multiple notebooks all at once.
If you export The Notebook directly above the one that contains the mini notebooks that you want to move then you can move all of them at once by importing them into a new location and then you'll still have to delete the few that you don't want there.
Another option if you're either comfortable with scripting or using GPT to create Scripts.
The client tool CLI can be included in a script that will list all of the folder ID numbers associated with each folder and then you can feed those into the script that you want to move and all of the folder IDs will move from one folder to another only personally I have no way of instructing you on how to do this.
Here are two scripts written by chat GPT one to list out all of the folder IDs and one to move the folders to your desired new location.
I appreciate the ingenuity! I think it’s probably more than I’m willing to do to move a folder since I’d have to manually export each one individually, or manually edit a list of folders using internal numerical pointers, then have to back-check that every note and attachment was transferred properly during the export-delete-import process. It feels like backing up a bunch of folders on my hard drive to the cloud, deleting them locally, and then downloading them into a new directory instead of having a mv command or a drag/drop gui. *
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