As you work with your Mylio Photos Library, you’ll often need to choose the images you want to work with. Perhaps it’s to export several photos or to add them to an album. Mylio Photos makes it easy to work with several photos at once.
Using the Select All Command
Select All is a quick way to select all media in the current view.
- Open Mylio Photos and locate the images, Folders, or Albums you want to select.
- Right-click on a photo, Folder, or Album and choose Select All or open the Actions menu and choose Select All. Your selection will have a Blue Border indicating what is selected.
Selecting Adjacent Photos and Videos
When you’re working with Folders, Albums, or All Photos view, you can see a grid of multiple photos. If the photos and videos you want to select are in an adjacent sequence, you can select them using the following steps.
- Open Mylio Photos and locate the images you want to use.
- Click on the first image. It will have a blue border indicating it is selected.
- On your keyboard, hold down the Shift key and click the last image. Mylio Photos will automatically select all images between the first and last image. All selected images will have a Blue Border indicating they are selected.
Selecting Nonadjacent Photos and Videos
If the photos or videos you want to select are scattered (not in sequential order), use these steps to select them.
- Open Mylio Photos and locate the images you want to use.
- Click on the first image. It will have a blue border indicating it is selected.
- On your keyboard, hold down the Command key (macOS) or CTRL key (Windows) and click the next image you want to select. Continue to hold down the Command/CTRL key to select as many images as you want. All selected images will have a Blue Border indicating they are selected.
Watch how to select multiple images on a computer
- You can select multiple files on Windows 10 simultaneously in order to move, delete, or duplicate them.
- To select multiple files on Windows 10 from a folder, use the Shift key and select the first and last file at the ends of the entire range you want to select.
- To select multiple files on Windows 10 from your desktop, hold down the Ctrl key as you click on each file until all are selected.
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Whether you need to move work reports to a different folder on your PC or you're deleting old documents off your computer, you don't have to move each file individually. Windows 10 allows you to select multiple files at once so that you can organize them quickly.
Selecting multiple files simultaneously on Windows is simple and can be done in two main ways, depending on if they are in a folder or on your desktop.
Here's how to do both.
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How to select multiple files on Windows 10 from a folder
1. Click one time on the first file you want to select while viewing your files in List mode. It will be highlighted blue to indicate that it's been selected.
2. Move your mouse down to the last file on the list you want to select and hold down the Shift key on your keyboard while clicking on the final file. This will highlight all files in between the first and last clicked.
All the files in between the first and last one you selected will be highlighted. Jennifer Still/Business InsiderHow to select multiple files on Windows 10 from your desktop
1. Single click the first file you wish to select.
2. Hold down the Ctrl key on your keyboard and using your trackpad or external mouse, click on all the other files you wish to select one by one.
The files you select will be highlighted with a check mark. Jennifer Still/Business Insider3. When you've clicked all the files you wish to select, let go of the Ctrl key. Your files will then be selected, and they should appear highlighted with a check mark on the top left.
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Jennifer is a writer and editor from Brooklyn, New York, who spends her time traveling, drinking iced coffee, and watching way too much TV. She has bylines in Vanity Fair, Glamour, Decider, Mic, and many more. You can find her on Twitter at @jenniferlstill.
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