Comment 0 for bug 18636

Hi,

This is a feature request in nautilus to have an option to invert the current
selection. That is, if we have 25 items in a folder, and we select any 10 random
items, on clicking Invert Selection, the other 15 items will be selected, and
the original 10 items will be de-selected.

Use Case:

When I'm backing up data from a certain directory, I select some files that
would fit on a CD. After burning these files, I'd like to be able to select the
remaining ones easily, so I can put them on another disc.
Right now I have to unselect the files, and then manually choose the ones I
haven't burned carefully. Or, insert the burnt disc and compare visually myself
to only choose the files which haven't been burnt. This is tedious and not very
confortable when you're doing the same operation repeatedly or when the no. of
files is large.