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Fix the folder display
Windows 7 build 7601 64X SSD+1tb HDD with most of the updates.
Whan using the command "C:\windows\explorer.exe /n, /e, d:\", the display on the left side of the screen shows the drives in the computer. Navigation deeper in the tree using the left side display, I have to implicitly click on the main folder to see any of the deeper folders. This is unlike the first selection where I select the drive and all of the deeper folders appear. Is there a setting to will make the deeper folders appear without having to select each one? R Wink |
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rwwink wrote:
Windows 7 build 7601 64X Whan using the command "C:\windows\explorer.exe /n, /e, d:\", the display on the left side of the screen shows the drives in the computer. Navigation deeper in the tree using the left side display, I have to implicitly click on the main folder to see any of the deeper folders. Or you could double-click on a folder in the folder/file list pane (right pane) to open it. This is unlike the first selection where I select the drive and all of the deeper folders appear. No different than when opening a folder. You are opening the root folder of a drive which then shows the folders and files under there. When you open another folder, you see the folders and files under there. When selecting a folder, whether the root folder (of the drive) or some subfolder (on the drive), you get to see 1 level down the folders and files within the selected folder. Is there a setting to will make the deeper folders appear without having to select each one? You want the entire tree list in the navigation pane (left pane) to be expanded? Windows Explorer doesn't work that way. Imagine the problems of viewing and delay of opening tree list that has all subfolders expanded going dozens of levels deep. In the command line you described, you specified the [root] folder to open. That's just like double-clicking on it within Windows Explorer. You chose what folder to open so Windows Explorer opens that way. If you had used "explorer.exe /n,/e,d:\somefolder\subfolder" (and if it existed) then Windows Explorer would open with that selected folder open. You told Windows Explorer to open that folder. If you want a tree list of all folders (i.e., a fully expanded tree) and file in them, run in a command shell (cmd.exe): tree [drive:][path] /f /a %temp%\treelist.txt & notepad.exe %temp%\treelist.txt That shows a tree list starting at the specified path with folders organized using ASCII characters and files (/f) under each folder, saves the output to a temp file, and loads the file into Notepad. Run "tree.exe /?" for help. |
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rwwink wrote on 11/3/2015 8:30 AM:
Windows 7 build 7601 64X SSD+1tb HDD with most of the updates. Whan using the command "C:\windows\explorer.exe /n, /e, d:\", the display on the left side of the screen shows the drives in the computer. Navigation deeper in the tree using the left side display, I have to implicitly click on the main folder to see any of the deeper folders. This is unlike the first selection where I select the drive and all of the deeper folders appear. Is there a setting to will make the deeper folders appear without having to select each one? R Wink I don't think I follow you but let me tell you what I see. If I click the arrows beside any folder in the left tree, it only expands the list in the tree but the details on the right side do not change. Other than that, clicking on any folder in the tree opens the folder details in the right. It does not expand the tree (left side) however. You have to expand using the arrows beside the folder. This is how it has always worked for me. But personally I don't use the left except to jump major jumps like from drive to drive etc. If I'm drilling down through the hierarchy of folders I double click the right side. |
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You are correct, I didn't know what I wanted BUT
What I would like to an indicatation, from the top of the tree in the left pane, which of the folder have subfolders FX some programs show a box on the left of the folder that indicated a subfolder. Outlook is one that comes to mind. If you made any subfolder in the pernal folers, it shows a small box to the left of the folder name that has a + in it to expand the folder or a - to compress the folder. It doesn't show the subfolder but do indicate whicj of the root folders has a subfoler. I guess, that's more in line with what I would like to have. R. Wink On Tue, 3 Nov 2015 11:29:29 -0600, VanguardLH wrote: rwwink wrote: Windows 7 build 7601 64X Whan using the command "C:\windows\explorer.exe /n, /e, d:\", the display on the left side of the screen shows the drives in the computer. Navigation deeper in the tree using the left side display, I have to implicitly click on the main folder to see any of the deeper folders. Or you could double-click on a folder in the folder/file list pane (right pane) to open it. This is unlike the first selection where I select the drive and all of the deeper folders appear. No different than when opening a folder. You are opening the root folder of a drive which then shows the folders and files under there. When you open another folder, you see the folders and files under there. When selecting a folder, whether the root folder (of the drive) or some subfolder (on the drive), you get to see 1 level down the folders and files within the selected folder. Is there a setting to will make the deeper folders appear without having to select each one? You want the entire tree list in the navigation pane (left pane) to be expanded? Windows Explorer doesn't work that way. Imagine the problems of viewing and delay of opening tree list that has all subfolders expanded going dozens of levels deep. In the command line you described, you specified the [root] folder to open. That's just like double-clicking on it within Windows Explorer. You chose what folder to open so Windows Explorer opens that way. If you had used "explorer.exe /n,/e,d:\somefolder\subfolder" (and if it existed) then Windows Explorer would open with that selected folder open. You told Windows Explorer to open that folder. If you want a tree list of all folders (i.e., a fully expanded tree) and file in them, run in a command shell (cmd.exe): tree [drive:][path] /f /a %temp%\treelist.txt & notepad.exe %temp%\treelist.txt That shows a tree list starting at the specified path with folders organized using ASCII characters and files (/f) under each folder, saves the output to a temp file, and loads the file into Notepad. Run "tree.exe /?" for help. |
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rwwink wrote:
You are correct, I didn't know what I wanted BUT What I would like to an indicatation, from the top of the tree in the left pane, which of the folder have subfolders If a folder has subfolders, you will see a right-pointing chevron (triangle) to the left of the folder. Instead of double-clicking on the folder to expand it, you can single-click on the chevron to expand a folder. When a folder (with subfolders) is collapsed, the chevron will be hollow and points to the right. When you expand that folder, the chevron gets fill-in (solid black) and points to the right and down. Outlook is one that comes to mind. Outlook is not showing any folders. It uses a tree view to illustrate the hierarchy of its message store. There are no folders for the message store. Just one local .pst or .ost file wherein are stored all the messages. Just in case you meant Outlook Express, a wholly separate and independent program, those folders are also not folders in the file system but how the messages are organized inside .dbx (database) files. Windows Live Mail does use the file system to store messages. Each message is a file in the file system and each folder is a folder in the file system, so WLM's organizational representation of its message store does match to how it uses the file system. A single index database file keeps track of where are the messages in the files and folders in the real file system. Most e-mail program use a database system because it is faster to find messages plus their data is compacted (binary) instead of consuming more space with character data in separate files for each message. In my Outlook 2013 instance, the chevrons are always solid (no hollow chevrons) and change from pointing to the right (for a collapsed folder) to pointing to the right and downward (for an expanded folder). Earlier versions of Outlook (you didn't mention your version) and Outlook EXPRESS use the "+" (collapsed folder) and "-" (expanded folder) for the tree node handles. No program has to use the same tree object (TreeView class) as does Windows Explorer. Many programs will use whatever tree or binary object they want to code for. Also, when you open a browse dialog within an app, it may use the standard browse object available from Windows or it may use its own browse dialog. What is a tree within an app is not necessarily the same tree object used in Windows or some other app. |
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