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Trouble Accessing Sub-Folders in XP after reinstall.
I had to reinstall Windows last week and everything is hunky dory,
except that in some cases sub-folder will not open. When I go to access the sub-folders in order to save something while in another application I can only access the top folder even when there are several sub-folders. Any help out there? |
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Trouble Accessing Sub-Folders in XP after reinstall.
On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:40:39 -0500, Barry Bruyea
wrote: I had to reinstall Windows last week and everything is hunky dory, except that in some cases sub-folder will not open. When I go to access the sub-folders in order to save something while in another application I can only access the top folder even when there are several sub-folders. Any help out there? I forgot to add that in some cases the Top folder doesn't even show a plus sign. |
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Trouble Accessing Sub-Folders in XP after reinstall.
On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:46:37 -0500, Barry Bruyea
wrote: On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:40:39 -0500, Barry Bruyea wrote: I had to reinstall Windows last week and everything is hunky dory, except that in some cases sub-folder will not open. When I go to access the sub-folders in order to save something while in another application I can only access the top folder even when there are several sub-folders. Any help out there? I forgot to add that in some cases the Top folder doesn't even show a plus sign. I'm not sure how much help you'll get. There wasn't much usable and relevant information in your post, but maybe someone will figure out what you're talking about and chime in. What are the names and full paths of these folders and subfolders that won't open? Which application(s) are you using to try to access them? What error messages, if any, are you getting? You're using XP SP3? |
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Trouble Accessing Sub-Folders in XP after reinstall.
You could try to repair the file / folder associations for "Folder" and
"Directory" as offered by Doug Knox's website : http://www.dougknox.com/xp/file_assoc.htm ....click on both the links for "Folder" and "Directory" which will start downloading the zip-file in both cases, open them and extract their reg-file contents and double-click on each to import the registry settings... == Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-) "Barry Bruyea" wrote in message ... On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:40:39 -0500, Barry Bruyea wrote: I had to reinstall Windows last week and everything is hunky dory, except that in some cases sub-folder will not open. When I go to access the sub-folders in order to save something while in another application I can only access the top folder even when there are several sub-folders. Any help out there? I forgot to add that in some cases the Top folder doesn't even show a plus sign. |
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Trouble Accessing Sub-Folders in XP after reinstall.
On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:10:13 -0000, "Tim Meddick"
wrote: You could try to repair the file / folder associations for "Folder" and "Directory" as offered by Doug Knox's website : http://www.dougknox.com/xp/file_assoc.htm ...click on both the links for "Folder" and "Directory" which will start downloading the zip-file in both cases, open them and extract their reg-file contents and double-click on each to import the registry settings... == Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-) Thanks for the suggestion, I'll give it a try. "Barry Bruyea" wrote in message .. . On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:40:39 -0500, Barry Bruyea wrote: I had to reinstall Windows last week and everything is hunky dory, except that in some cases sub-folder will not open. When I go to access the sub-folders in order to save something while in another application I can only access the top folder even when there are several sub-folders. Any help out there? I forgot to add that in some cases the Top folder doesn't even show a plus sign. |
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Trouble Accessing Sub-Folders in XP after reinstall.
On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:10:13 -0000, "Tim Meddick"
wrote: You could try to repair the file / folder associations for "Folder" and "Directory" as offered by Doug Knox's website : http://www.dougknox.com/xp/file_assoc.htm ...click on both the links for "Folder" and "Directory" which will start downloading the zip-file in both cases, open them and extract their reg-file contents and double-click on each to import the registry settings... == Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-) Thanks for the suggestion, I'll give it a try. Tried this, but nothing change. The big mystery for me is that in folders with many subfolders which in turn have more subfolders some have the + sign beside them and others don't which, of course, is the reason they don't open their subfolders. "Barry Bruyea" wrote in message .. . On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:40:39 -0500, Barry Bruyea wrote: I had to reinstall Windows last week and everything is hunky dory, except that in some cases sub-folder will not open. When I go to access the sub-folders in order to save something while in another application I can only access the top folder even when there are several sub-folders. Any help out there? I forgot to add that in some cases the Top folder doesn't even show a plus sign. |
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Trouble Accessing Sub-Folders in XP after reinstall.
On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:27:48 -0500, Barry Bruyea
wrote: On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:10:13 -0000, "Tim Meddick" wrote: You could try to repair the file / folder associations for "Folder" and "Directory" as offered by Doug Knox's website : http://www.dougknox.com/xp/file_assoc.htm ...click on both the links for "Folder" and "Directory" which will start downloading the zip-file in both cases, open them and extract their reg-file contents and double-click on each to import the registry settings... Thanks for the suggestion, I'll give it a try. Tried this, but nothing change. The big mystery for me is that in folders with many subfolders which in turn have more subfolders some have the + sign beside them and others don't which, of course, is the reason they don't open their subfolders. I'm not sure why the folders continue to be a mystery... Spill the beans already. |
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Trouble Accessing Sub-Folders in XP after reinstall.
On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:13:20 -0600, Char Jackson
wrote: On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:27:48 -0500, Barry Bruyea wrote: On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:10:13 -0000, "Tim Meddick" wrote: You could try to repair the file / folder associations for "Folder" and "Directory" as offered by Doug Knox's website : http://www.dougknox.com/xp/file_assoc.htm ...click on both the links for "Folder" and "Directory" which will start downloading the zip-file in both cases, open them and extract their reg-file contents and double-click on each to import the registry settings... Thanks for the suggestion, I'll give it a try. Tried this, but nothing change. The big mystery for me is that in folders with many subfolders which in turn have more subfolders some have the + sign beside them and others don't which, of course, is the reason they don't open their subfolders. I'm not sure why the folders continue to be a mystery... Spill the beans already. If I knew why, I wouldn't be posting asking the question. All I know is that in spite of the suggested fix, folders with sub-folders continue to be absent a + sign. When I click on them, they are shown in the right hand panel of Explorer but no drop down list is shown under them in the left hand panel. When pulling up the directory in an application to determine where I want to save something all I get is the lead folder with no +, ergo, I can't access the sub-folder to save the file. (I am using XP3.) |
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