Upgrade StorageUI improvement: distinguish removing items from parent collection and subcollections
When “View → Show Items from Subcollections” is enabled, selecting “Remove Items from Collection” removes the selected items from both the parent collection and its subcollections.
I understand the underlying collection model and can work around this by temporarily disabling “Show Items from Subcollections”. However, the command label does not indicate that the action affects multiple collection memberships.
Could the interface offer two explicit options?
Remove from this collection only
Remove from this collection and displayed subcollections
Alternatively, the confirmation dialog could identify the affected collections and allow the user to choose.
My typical use case is moving items from a parent collection into a subcollection. If I forget to hold Shift while dragging, the items remain in the parent collection and must subsequently be removed from it. Because I often have “Show Items from Subcollections” enabled, the current behaviour makes this simple correction less straightforward than expected.
In this and similar workflows, removing only the direct parent membership is considerably more common than removing the item from all displayed collection levels.
I understand the underlying collection model and can work around this by temporarily disabling “Show Items from Subcollections”. However, the command label does not indicate that the action affects multiple collection memberships.
Could the interface offer two explicit options?
Remove from this collection only
Remove from this collection and displayed subcollections
Alternatively, the confirmation dialog could identify the affected collections and allow the user to choose.
My typical use case is moving items from a parent collection into a subcollection. If I forget to hold Shift while dragging, the items remain in the parent collection and must subsequently be removed from it. Because I often have “Show Items from Subcollections” enabled, the current behaviour makes this simple correction less straightforward than expected.
In this and similar workflows, removing only the direct parent membership is considerably more common than removing the item from all displayed collection levels.