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From: bskendig@shine.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig)
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Subject: Re: Labels in 7.0?
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Date: 5 May 91 21:36:19 GMT
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In article <5901@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> drenze@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Douglas Renze) writes:
>I have a folder in my root directory.  Inside that that folder are
>three tiers of subfolders.  The third tier of subfolders consists of
>something over 50 folders.  I'd like a way to set absolutely
>everything within the folder in the root directory to the same label.
>If it doesn't exist, fine.  If there's some sort of shortcut to do it
>without going through 50 in- dividual folders, that's fine too.

Select a text view ("View by Name", "by Date", whatever), then scroll
down through the window, clicking the folder-hierarchy arrows wherever
you see them so that the contents of all the folders will be visible
in that same window.  Then just do a "Select All", and choose a label.

Easier than opening several dozen new windows, and in fact it's
probably the easiest way to do it for large hierarchies of files until
someone comes out with a tool to do that kind of thing.

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