Create A New Folder with Selected Files on the Mac

In this video, we’re going to take a look at how we can create a new folder from our selection on the Mac. Let’s say you have a number of photos. And what you would like to do is place those into a new folder. Well, instead of creating that folder, and then dragging those documents into that folder, what we’re able to do a select all of those photos, and then we can create a new folder and place those into the folder with one step. Let’s see how we do this. Let’s go over to my Mac.

Now I’m going to be showing you how this works with Mac OS Ventura. But this is not a feature that is exclusive to Mac OS Ventura, this has been available since Mac OS 10 came out. So if we look at my desktop, here, you’re gonna see that I have three images, what I would like to do is place these three images into a folder. Now one way of doing that is by going and creating a new folder. So I just go up under file here, and then I go over and create a new folder. From here, I need to name it. So let’s just call this images. And then I have to do is just select these images here. And then I drag them into the folder. But there’s an easier way of doing that. What we can do is select all of the images. So I’m going to select all of my images here. I have them selected. Now what I do is I hold down the Ctrl key, I need to get to my contextual menu. The way that I do this is by holding down the Ctrl key. And when I click, you’re going to see at the very top new folder with selection. So what this is going to do is create a new folder on my Mac, and it’s going to place whatever I have selected those three images into that folder. From there, all I have to do is just to name it, it’s going to be ready for me to name it. So let’s go ahead and select this and watch what happens selected.

We can see it placed it into a folder, and it’s ready for me to name it. So now I just type in images. And now all three of those are in that folder. Let’s go and do that again. This time I’m going to go with these documents here. I select them, I hold down the control key and I click we go over to New Folder.

It places them into a new folder, and it’s ready for me to name it. Now we can even do this with folders. I have these two folders here, I’d like to place those into another folder. All I have to do is just Ctrl click, we get our contextual menu. I select New Folder with selection, my two folders being selected.

It places those into another folder. All I have to do is just start typing to name that folder. So that’s how we can create a new folder with our selected items on the Mac. This has been around since Mac OS 10 came out this is not exclusive to MacOS Ventura, all you have to do is just select your items, they can be documents, they can be folders, just select your items and then hold down the Ctrl key to get to your contextual menu. And all you have to do is just select New Folder with selection. And it will place those items that you have selected into a brand new folder and it’ll be ready for you to name it. So that’s how you can create a new folder with your selected items on the Mac.