OK. Personally, I don’t really see how it would be possible to implement the other feature request without also implementing the functionality that you have asked for — otherwise, there would have to be a way (other than the path name) for a nested child collection
oldTopCollectionName/childCollection
to know that is should inherit access permissions from a renamed top collection now named
newTopCollectionName
For now, I will leave your feature request stand as a separate topic; however, I have modified the title to make it more clear what you are asking for (old title: “Feature Request – Hierarchical Collection Management”; new title: “Update path name of nested collections when parent collection is renamed”). I also changed the topic’s “app” tag frmo “app:browser” to “app:all”.
Bulk reassignment of organization items from one collection to another is already possible, although perhaps not in the way that you envision. The following feature request should be relevant, though: