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Help needed with folders
Hello, I'm hoping someone can help me with a problem I've been having for a
while with my folders on Windows XP. The problem is with how the folders are associated - the templates for documents, videos or pictures. No matter how many times I set them to the type I want, they almost always change to something different. I've tried 'Reset All Folders' under Control Panel - Folder Options - View many times, only for the problem to return soon afterwards, with folders changing at random. I could easily be missing something obvious, but the ordinary Help and Support doesn't come up with anything useful. The most curious thing is that it is doing this with the main 'My Documents' folders as well, with 'My Videos' set to pictures, for example, and vice-versa. Even when I try to assign one normal folder to 'documents' and 'apply template to all subfolders', it doesn't work for long, with the settings reverting to ones often totally unrelated to the folders' contents (currently the 'My Music' folder is set to pictures). I don't know what I could have done wrong or whatever setting I might have changed to make things this way. I hope its not a sign of something really wrong, but right now it's just a nuisance and it shouldn't be happening. Hope someone can help.... |
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Help needed with folders
Sounds like the index to saved views is full. Try running my script, using
the option to delete all currently saved views. That will give you a fresh start. Here's the canned description & link: I've written a script that will apply all the view customizations you can set to all of a folder's subfolders. Right-click the link below & save to your computer. The zip file contains a readme file & the script itself. http://mysite.verizon.net/res18hr7/FVM3.zip You can select a folder & configure its view settings, then those are set to be inherited by all subfolders (you have the option of saving or wiping out current saved views) .. You can set a default for My Pics, another for My Music, and then a more generic default for My Computer. The inheritance settings are separate from the folder view itself -- for example, you can set a non-grouped view to be the default inheritance for My Computer, then return My Computer to its standard 'group by type' layout after running the script without affecting the default view you have set. --- -- Good Luck, Keith Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User] "lmd_84" wrote in message ... Hello, I'm hoping someone can help me with a problem I've been having for a while with my folders on Windows XP. The problem is with how the folders are associated - the templates for documents, videos or pictures. No matter how many times I set them to the type I want, they almost always change to something different. I've tried 'Reset All Folders' under Control Panel - Folder Options - View many times, only for the problem to return soon afterwards, with folders changing at random. I could easily be missing something obvious, but the ordinary Help and Support doesn't come up with anything useful. The most curious thing is that it is doing this with the main 'My Documents' folders as well, with 'My Videos' set to pictures, for example, and vice-versa. Even when I try to assign one normal folder to 'documents' and 'apply template to all subfolders', it doesn't work for long, with the settings reverting to ones often totally unrelated to the folders' contents (currently the 'My Music' folder is set to pictures). I don't know what I could have done wrong or whatever setting I might have changed to make things this way. I hope its not a sign of something really wrong, but right now it's just a nuisance and it shouldn't be happening. Hope someone can help.... |
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Help needed with folders
Oh, that script worked wonders. I've reset all the folders I needed to.
Thank-you very much for your assistance. "Keith Miller MVP" wrote: Sounds like the index to saved views is full. Try running my script, using the option to delete all currently saved views. That will give you a fresh start. |
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Help needed with folders
You're welcome. Thanks for the feedback.
-- Good Luck, Keith Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User] "lmd_84" wrote in message ... Oh, that script worked wonders. I've reset all the folders I needed to. Thank-you very much for your assistance. "Keith Miller MVP" wrote: Sounds like the index to saved views is full. Try running my script, using the option to delete all currently saved views. That will give you a fresh start. |
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Help needed with folders
Keith Miller MVP wrote:
Sounds like the index to saved views is full. Try running my script, using the option to delete all currently saved views. That will give you a fresh start. Here's the canned description & link: I've written a script that will apply all the view customizations you can set to all of a folder's subfolders. Right-click the link below & save to your computer. The zip file contains a readme file & the script itself. http://mysite.verizon.net/res18hr7/FVM3.zip You can select a folder & configure its view settings, then those are set to be inherited by all subfolders (you have the option of saving or wiping out current saved views) . You can set a default for My Pics, another for My Music, and then a more generic default for My Computer. The inheritance settings are separate from the folder view itself -- for example, you can set a non-grouped view to be the default inheritance for My Computer, then return My Computer to its standard 'group by type' layout after running the script without affecting the default view you have set. --- Interesting little utility; I'll grab it, for "just in case". However, the time I ran into that problem, somewhere in the back of my head it seems like I was able to increase the number of folders in the list, instead. I can't recall the details now, but ... -- Does your utility address the size of that store? Seems like without increasing it, the problem will just re-occur down the road? -- What is it I'm trying to remember ;-)? I -think- the original # was about 500? -- Any chance you have a URL I could read to learn more about that? TIA, Pop` |
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Help needed with folders
"Poprivet" wrote in
: Interesting little utility; I'll grab it, for "just in case". However, the time I ran into that problem, somewhere in the back of my head it seems like I was able to increase the number of folders in the list, instead. I can't recall the details now, but ... I have this old Andrew Milne post lying around. Maybe it will help: Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell NoRoam and create a new DWORD Value called "BagMRU Size", and give it a decimal value of say 2,000. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell and do the same. The value determines the number of folders for which XP remembers the view settings (the default is 400). Hope this helps. Andrew Milne |
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Help needed with folders
The max limit is 8000. The pre-SP2 default was 400. SP2 upped it to 5000.
If your current limit is not at the maximum, my script offers to set it to the max. -- Good Luck, Keith Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User] "Poprivet" wrote in message ... Keith Miller MVP wrote: Sounds like the index to saved views is full. Try running my script, using the option to delete all currently saved views. That will give you a fresh start. Here's the canned description & link: I've written a script that will apply all the view customizations you can set to all of a folder's subfolders. Right-click the link below & save to your computer. The zip file contains a readme file & the script itself. http://mysite.verizon.net/res18hr7/FVM3.zip You can select a folder & configure its view settings, then those are set to be inherited by all subfolders (you have the option of saving or wiping out current saved views) . You can set a default for My Pics, another for My Music, and then a more generic default for My Computer. The inheritance settings are separate from the folder view itself -- for example, you can set a non-grouped view to be the default inheritance for My Computer, then return My Computer to its standard 'group by type' layout after running the script without affecting the default view you have set. --- Interesting little utility; I'll grab it, for "just in case". However, the time I ran into that problem, somewhere in the back of my head it seems like I was able to increase the number of folders in the list, instead. I can't recall the details now, but ... -- Does your utility address the size of that store? Seems like without increasing it, the problem will just re-occur down the road? -- What is it I'm trying to remember ;-)? I -think- the original # was about 500? -- Any chance you have a URL I could read to learn more about that? TIA, Pop` |
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Help needed with folders
Steve Myers wrote:
"Poprivet" wrote in : Interesting little utility; I'll grab it, for "just in case". However, the time I ran into that problem, somewhere in the back of my head it seems like I was able to increase the number of folders in the list, instead. I can't recall the details now, but ... I have this old Andrew Milne post lying around. Maybe it will help: Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell NoRoam and create a new DWORD Value called "BagMRU Size", and give it a decimal value of say 2,000. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell and do the same. The value determines the number of folders for which XP remembers the view settings (the default is 400). Hope this helps. Andrew Milne That's it; thanks. Pop` |
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Help needed with folders
Keith Miller MVP wrote:
The max limit is 8000. The pre-SP2 default was 400. SP2 upped it to 5000. If your current limit is not at the maximum, my script offers to set it to the max. Yeah, thanks! It occurred to me that I've reinstalled a couple of times since then and cannot recall having to set it again, in fact. Must be when SP2 came along took care of it in my case. Regards, Pop` "Poprivet" wrote in message ... Keith Miller MVP wrote: Sounds like the index to saved views is full. Try running my script, using the option to delete all currently saved views. That will give you a fresh start. Here's the canned description & link: I've written a script that will apply all the view customizations you can set to all of a folder's subfolders. Right-click the link below & save to your computer. The zip file contains a readme file & the script itself. http://mysite.verizon.net/res18hr7/FVM3.zip You can select a folder & configure its view settings, then those are set to be inherited by all subfolders (you have the option of saving or wiping out current saved views) . You can set a default for My Pics, another for My Music, and then a more generic default for My Computer. The inheritance settings are separate from the folder view itself -- for example, you can set a non-grouped view to be the default inheritance for My Computer, then return My Computer to its standard 'group by type' layout after running the script without affecting the default view you have set. --- Interesting little utility; I'll grab it, for "just in case". However, the time I ran into that problem, somewhere in the back of my head it seems like I was able to increase the number of folders in the list, instead. I can't recall the details now, but ... -- Does your utility address the size of that store? Seems like without increasing it, the problem will just re-occur down the road? -- What is it I'm trying to remember ;-)? I -think- the original # was about 500? -- Any chance you have a URL I could read to learn more about that? TIA, Pop` |
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