New feature proposal for "New Folder with Selection"-function in Finder

Thanks for your reply. And I agree with you, the machine should be „intelligent” enough to determine if the file names are indeed sequential or not. For example, I often create similar documents that only differ in the date in the file name. And even if the automatic folder naming results in gibberish, the name that has been created so far has to be changed manually too. So for those, nothing changes.

The idea would be that the system finds the greatest common ground. If you only select "Bob 2010 Tax Form" and "Gary 2010 Tax Form" the result would be "2010 Tax Form", and if you select "Bob 2010 Tax Form", "Gary 2010 Tax Form", "Bob 2011 Tax Form" and "Gary 2011 Tax Form" it would just create "Tax Form". If you choose "Bob 2010 Tax Form" and "Bob 2011 Tax Form" you would (ideally) get "Bob Tax Form".

If you do not like the result you can still rename the folder, something you would do anyway. But the folder name would be much less generic than the default "New folder with Objects". And for those users who do not like the function at all, there should be the possibility to disable it in the system settings of course. For users like me, it would be a welcome little facilitation that gives you the feeling that someone in Cupertino has thought a step further than, say, in Redmond.