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How to make an "Up one Level" / "Parent" button?
For 10 years now, the lack of an "Up" button has really irritated me. Does anyone know any way to add one? Whoever decided it would be a good idea to remove the "Up" button, frankly, wants their head examined!
Yes, there's a keyboard shortcut (Alt+up) but it's an extremely cumbersome shortcut which requires two hands. Most of the time when you've got your hand on the mouse and you're dragging files around, you don't want a keyboard shortcut, you just NEED AN UP BUTTON!
I've read quite a few people saying that an up button is redundant because we have the breadcrumbs menu. I could not disagree more strongly!
Why the Breadcrumbs is NOT a suitable replacement for an "Up" button
The breadcrumbs menu is EXTREMELY cumbersome to use, requiring 3 slow and difficult steps:
- First you have to look at the breadcrumbs, read what it says, and try to figure out which portion of text represents the current directory, and which represents the parent directory. This all requires READING which needlessly slows down your brain.
- Next, you have to carefully move your mouse over the bit of text representing the parent directory and click on it. That's quite difficult because more often than not, this is a tiny, truncated, nonsensical couple of characters.
- Finally, you must start this entire painful process all over again and repeat it the number of levels you're trying to move up. So, if you want to move up three levels, you need to do this process three times. (Yes, there are times when you can jump up multiple levels at once, but this function often unavailable, so you can't rely on it being there.)
In contrast, with an "Up" button, you don't have to read anything. You don't even have to even think at all. You can just click "Up" 3 times and you're exactly where you want to be. Click-click-click. Done.