diff --git a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/FileTransfer/TransfersDialog.cpp b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/FileTransfer/TransfersDialog.cpp
index ca4cf5cfa..b9e961457 100644
--- a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/FileTransfer/TransfersDialog.cpp
+++ b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/FileTransfer/TransfersDialog.cpp
@@ -1640,8 +1640,27 @@ void TransfersDialog::updateDetailsDialog()
 
 void TransfersDialog::pasteLink()
 {
-	RSLinkClipboard::process(RetroShareLink::TYPE_FILE);
-	RSLinkClipboard::process(RetroShareLink::TYPE_FILE_TREE);
+	QList<RetroShareLink> links ;
+
+	// We want to capture and process all links at once here, because we're possibly pasting a large collection of files. So we first
+	// merge all links into a single RsCollection and then process it.
+
+	RsCollection col ;
+	RSLinkClipboard::pasteLinks(links,RetroShareLink::TYPE_FILE_TREE);
+
+	for(QList<RetroShareLink>::const_iterator it(links.begin());it!=links.end();++it)
+	{
+		FileTree *ft = FileTree::create((*it).radix().toStdString()) ;
+
+		col.merge_in(*ft) ;
+	}
+	links.clear();
+	RSLinkClipboard::pasteLinks(links,RetroShareLink::TYPE_FILE);
+
+	for(QList<RetroShareLink>::const_iterator it(links.begin());it!=links.end();++it)
+		col.merge_in((*it).name(),(*it).size(),RsFileHash((*it).hash().toStdString())) ;
+
+	col.downloadFiles();
 }
 
 void TransfersDialog::getDLSelectedItems(std::set<RsFileHash> *ids, std::set<int> *rows)
diff --git a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/RetroShareLink.cpp b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/RetroShareLink.cpp
index 769a6321f..a42d9c104 100644
--- a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/RetroShareLink.cpp
+++ b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/RetroShareLink.cpp
@@ -1716,17 +1716,17 @@ void RSLinkClipboard::copyLinks(const QList<RetroShareLink>& links)
 	QApplication::clipboard()->setText(res) ;
 }
 
-void RSLinkClipboard::pasteLinks(QList<RetroShareLink> &links)
+void RSLinkClipboard::pasteLinks(QList<RetroShareLink> &links,RetroShareLink::enumType type)
 {
-	return parseClipboard(links);
+	return parseClipboard(links,type);
 }
 
-void RSLinkClipboard::parseClipboard(QList<RetroShareLink> &links)
+void RSLinkClipboard::parseClipboard(QList<RetroShareLink> &links,RetroShareLink::enumType type)
 {
 	// parse clipboard for links.
 	//
 	QString text = QApplication::clipboard()->text() ;
-	parseText(text, links);
+	parseText(text, links,type);
 }
 
 QString RSLinkClipboard::toString()
@@ -1771,26 +1771,18 @@ bool RSLinkClipboard::empty(RetroShareLink::enumType type /* = RetroShareLink::T
 	return true;
 }
 
-/*static*/ int RSLinkClipboard::process(RetroShareLink::enumType type /* = RetroShareLink::TYPE_UNKNOWN*/, uint flag /* = RSLINK_PROCESS_NOTIFY_ALL*/)
+int RSLinkClipboard::process(RetroShareLink::enumType type /* = RetroShareLink::TYPE_UNKNOWN*/, uint flag /* = RSLINK_PROCESS_NOTIFY_ALL*/)
 {
 	QList<RetroShareLink> links;
-	pasteLinks(links);
+	pasteLinks(links,type);
 
-	QList<RetroShareLink> linksToProcess;
-	for (int i = 0; i < links.size(); ++i) {
-		if (links[i].valid() && (type == RetroShareLink::TYPE_UNKNOWN || links[i].type() == type)) {
-			linksToProcess.append(links[i]);
-		}
-	}
-
-	if (linksToProcess.isEmpty()) {
+	if (links.isEmpty())
 		return 0;
-	}
 
-	return RetroShareLink::process(linksToProcess, flag);
+	return RetroShareLink::process(links, flag);
 }
 
-void RSLinkClipboard::parseText(QString text, QList<RetroShareLink> &links)
+void RSLinkClipboard::parseText(QString text, QList<RetroShareLink> &links,RetroShareLink::enumType type )
 {
 	links.clear();
 
@@ -1805,7 +1797,7 @@ void RSLinkClipboard::parseText(QString text, QList<RetroShareLink> &links)
 		QString url(text.mid(pos, rx.matchedLength()));
 		RetroShareLink link(url);
 
-		if(link.valid())
+		if(link.valid() && (type == RetroShareLink::TYPE_UNKNOWN || type == link.type()))
 		{
 			// check that the link is not already in the list:
 			bool already = false ;
diff --git a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/RetroShareLink.h b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/RetroShareLink.h
index 11b25b419..43ca67ab0 100644
--- a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/RetroShareLink.h
+++ b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/RetroShareLink.h
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ class RSLinkClipboard
 		// Get the liste of pasted links, either from the internal RS links, or by default
 		// from the clipboard.
 		//
-		static void pasteLinks(QList<RetroShareLink> &links) ;
+		static void pasteLinks(QList<RetroShareLink> &links,RetroShareLink::enumType type = RetroShareLink::TYPE_UNKNOWN) ;
 
 		// Produces a list of links with no html structure.
 		static QString toString() ;
@@ -215,10 +215,10 @@ class RSLinkClipboard
 		//
 		static int process(RetroShareLink::enumType type = RetroShareLink::TYPE_UNKNOWN, uint flag = RSLINK_PROCESS_NOTIFY_ALL);
 
-		static void parseText(QString text, QList<RetroShareLink> &links) ;
+		static void parseText(QString text, QList<RetroShareLink> &links, RetroShareLink::enumType type = RetroShareLink::TYPE_UNKNOWN) ;
 
 	private:
-		static void parseClipboard(QList<RetroShareLink> &links) ;
+		static void parseClipboard(QList<RetroShareLink> &links, RetroShareLink::enumType type = RetroShareLink::TYPE_UNKNOWN) ;
 };
 
 #endif
diff --git a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/common/RsCollection.cpp b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/common/RsCollection.cpp
index a7ba9637a..a42d34340 100644
--- a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/common/RsCollection.cpp
+++ b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/common/RsCollection.cpp
@@ -41,25 +41,21 @@ const QString RsCollection::ExtensionString = QString("rscollection") ;
 RsCollection::RsCollection(QObject *parent)
 	: QObject(parent), _xml_doc("RsCollection")
 {
+	_root = _xml_doc.createElement("RsCollection");
+	_xml_doc.appendChild(_root);
 }
 
 RsCollection::RsCollection(const FileTree& fr)
 	: _xml_doc("RsCollection")
 {
-	QDomElement root = _xml_doc.createElement("RsCollection");
-	_xml_doc.appendChild(root);
-
-	recursAddElements(_xml_doc,fr,0,root) ;
+	recursAddElements(_xml_doc,fr,0,_root) ;
 }
 
 RsCollection::RsCollection(const std::vector<DirDetails>& file_infos, QObject *parent)
 	: QObject(parent), _xml_doc("RsCollection")
 {
-	QDomElement root = _xml_doc.createElement("RsCollection");
-	_xml_doc.appendChild(root);
-
 	for(uint32_t i = 0;i<file_infos.size();++i)
-		recursAddElements(_xml_doc,file_infos[i],root) ;
+		recursAddElements(_xml_doc,file_infos[i],_root) ;
 }
 
 RsCollection::~RsCollection()
@@ -96,6 +92,21 @@ static QString purifyFileName(const QString& input,bool& bad)
 	return output ;
 }
 
+void RsCollection::merge_in(const QString& fname,uint64_t size,const RsFileHash& hash)
+{
+	ColFileInfo info ;
+	info.type = DIR_TYPE_FILE ;
+	info.name = fname ;
+	info.size = size ;
+	info.hash = QString::fromStdString(hash.toStdString()) ;
+
+	recursAddElements(_xml_doc,info,_root) ;
+}
+void RsCollection::merge_in(const FileTree& tree)
+{
+	recursAddElements(_xml_doc,tree,0,_root) ;
+}
+
 void RsCollection::recursCollectColFileInfos(const QDomElement& e,std::vector<ColFileInfo>& colFileInfos,const QString& current_path, bool bad_chars_in_parent) const
 {
 	QDomNode n = e.firstChild() ;
@@ -235,7 +246,7 @@ void RsCollection::recursAddElements(QDomDocument& doc,const FileTree& ft,uint32
 		f.setAttribute(QString("sha1"),QString::fromStdString(subfiles[i].hash.toStdString())) ;
 		f.setAttribute(QString("size"),QString::number(subfiles[i].size)) ;
 
-		e.appendChild(f) ;
+		d.appendChild(f) ;
 	}
 }
 
diff --git a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/common/RsCollection.h b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/common/RsCollection.h
index f42b81db0..0a6e1e65f 100644
--- a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/common/RsCollection.h
+++ b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/common/RsCollection.h
@@ -68,10 +68,11 @@ public:
 	RsCollection(const FileTree& fr);
 	virtual ~RsCollection() ;
 
+	void merge_in(const QString& fname,uint64_t size,const RsFileHash& hash) ;
+	void merge_in(const FileTree& tree) ;
+
 	static const QString ExtensionString ;
 
-
-
 	// Loads file from disk.
 	bool load(QWidget *parent);
 	bool load(const QString& fileName, bool showError = true);
@@ -108,6 +109,7 @@ private:
 	QDomDocument _xml_doc ;
 	QString _fileName ;
 	bool _saved;
+	QDomElement _root ;
 
 	friend class RsCollectionDialog ;
 };