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Hi all. I have a situation where I have many small .ply files nested in subdirectories of a parent project directory. I'd really like to be able to open all of these files at once, as navigating to each individual subdirectory and opening the files from there takes a long time.

Is there a way to batch open files inside subdirectories? I know that this can be halfway be achieved by the command line tool, but in my case the purpose of opening the files is for visual inspection, and I can't seem to find a way to use the command line tool to open files in the GUI.

Thanks.

Well, for now, the only solution I see is to load all the files via the command line tool (in the same run, which might make a very long command, but you'll have to script that anyway). And then save it as one .bin file (with the '-SAVE_CLOUDS ALL_AT_ONCE' command). And eventually load this .BIN file in CC... I admit it's a bit cumbersome ;)