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Originally Posted by Reece
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I have had so much pain with it, the file system if horrid, why I can't copy folders is beyond me!! Using File Manager(or what ever it is called) how do you copy from one folder to another when you can only open one instance of it??? What ever I click on the left pane shows the contents on the right. . . Useless!!! 
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You are using Ubuntu 16.04 with the Unity Desktop, right?
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Originally Posted by Platapus
When I want to open up two instances of a folder, this is what I do
1. I navigate to my documents folder and open up the sub folder I want.
2. On the left is an table of icons one of which is my documents folder
3. I right click on that documents folder and choose open in new tab
4. On this second tab, I navigate to the second folder I want to open.
I now have two folders open, one in each tab. If I wanted to, I could have opened each in a new window.
The key is to right click to open up the second folder. Otherwise, as you posted, it just closes the first folder and opens up the second folder.
Does that help you?
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From what I remember of Gnome/Unity, this sounds like good advice.
Reece, you're not alone. I tried Unity on Ubuntu when I built a machine for someone else a few years ago, at the suggestion of a IT friend, and I DID. NOT. LIKE. IT.
When I saw your topic title, I was thinking: "What happened to get a title like that..."
But after reading it, I can understand your feelings on the matter.
Using "Dolphin" the KDE file manager, which behaves a bit like "My Computer" on Win98/XP, I can open more than one, and it lets me do all those things that I want to do.
(EXCEPT: Veiw Directories/Folders that require ROOT access. I stick to the Terminal for "root business".)
If you are looking for something more familiar:
You should be able to install Dolphin in Unity without too much trouble (you don't need all of KDE just to get Dolphin).
That *may* be the way to go...
I really need to re-install some virtual machines to be able to troubleshoot things like this.
BUT, I'm holding off as I *may* make the jump to Gentoo...
Barracuda