Inheriting Explorer column selections

[Dave \Crash\ Dummy]

I have a music collection stored in a folder tree. I want to select
certain columns to display (artist, length, etc.), which is easy enough,
but I don't want to have to do it for each folder. Is their some way to
have folders inherit the column setting from a parent folder, so I can
just set them once, in the highest order folder?

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

I have a music collection stored in a folder tree. I want to select
certain columns to display (artist, length, etc.), which is easy enough,
but I don't want to have to do it for each folder. Is their some way to
have folders inherit the column setting from a parent folder, so I can
just set them once, in the highest order folder?

Off the top of my head: Set other folders like this one.

Hang on, I'll double check...

In Explorer, set up yur folder as you like. click on Organize - Folder
and Search Options, and do more setup.

Now go to the View tab (in the same dialog).

Click the Apply to Folders button.

That should set up similar folders (and only them) the same as the one
you're looking at.

I never do this, so my understanding might be skewed, but others in this
NG have talked about it...

 

[Dave \Crash\ Dummy]

Off the top of my head: Set other folders like this one.

Hang on, I'll double check...

In Explorer, set up yur folder as you like. click on Organize -
Folder and Search Options, and do more setup.

Now go to the View tab (in the same dialog).

Click the Apply to Folders button.

That should set up similar folders (and only them) the same as the
one you're looking at.

I never do this, so my understanding might be skewed, but others in
this NG have talked about it...

That works. I always thought that applied to all folders, regardless of
type, but in this instance it just applies to music folders. It is not
restricted to a particular tree, however, not that that really matters here.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

That works. I always thought that applied to all folders, regardless of
type, but in this instance it just applies to music folders. It is not
restricted to a particular tree, however, not that that really matters here.

Yes. The dialog certainly seems to imply that you are making a change to
all folders, and the only reason I knew otherwise (that you are changing
folders of this type) is that I read this newsgroup

The better phrased version in earlier Windows makes it clear (as I used
to read it, anyway) that it applies to all files of a particular type,
not just in the current branch of the directory tree.

 

[Dave \Crash\ Dummy]

Yes. The dialog certainly seems to imply that you are making a change
to all folders, and the only reason I knew otherwise (that you are
changing folders of this type) is that I read this newsgroup

The better phrased version in earlier Windows makes it clear (as I
used to read it, anyway) that it applies to all files of a particular
type, not just in the current branch of the directory tree.

The idea of folder "types" never sank in. I'm stuck in real mode. I
still call them directories.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

The idea of folder "types" never sank in. I'm stuck in real mode. I
still call them directories.

Folder type is pretty elusive.

I think Windows just is aware of the information in a folder, and so any
folder with all video files, as one example, is a video folder.

The use of synonyms for directory has no impact in this area

 

[Dave \Crash\ Dummy]

Folder type is pretty elusive.

I think Windows just is aware of the information in a folder, and so
any folder with all video files, as one example, is a video folder.

I discovered that the folder type can be set manually to override whatever
Windows thinks it ought to be: Properties>Customize (tab)>Drop down menu.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

I discovered that the folder type can be set manually to override whatever
Windows thinks it ought to be: Properties>Customize (tab)>Drop down menu.

Cool. Thanks.