How can I direct windows to open a folder with a certain view enabled?
For example, each of my albums in MP3 format is in its own folder for each individual album. Whenever I open a folder I am in the tile view by default. I prefer the detail view so I select detail view. Now that I have selected the detail view I am able to manually adjust which details are shown. The default detail view contains some information I do not want and does not show some of the information that I would like to see (such as bitrate).
I am constantly having to turn off certain details, turn on other details and drag the fields around to get them in my preferred order. Once I have done this it seems to keep the format I have chosen, however I do not wish to do this manually for each of the 1700 folders.
How can I set which details and detail order once and have it apply to all subfolders? Is this possible?
I don’t have access to a winXP box right now, so this is from my win2k machine. I hope the same concept applies in winXP.
In Windows Explorer, set the folder up how you like. Then click Tools, Folder Options. Click the View tab, and there are two buttons there. One of them will set all folders to be like the current folder.
I don’t think you can set it to apply only to subfolders. In this case it will do it to ALL folders. This may be sufficient for your needs.
Hope this helps,
Max.
Hmmmm…thanks for your reply, I see now what you are suggesting.
Not sure now that I can do what I am after with that method. If I did that, would ALL folders then show the specific detail view that I see when viewing the contents of an MP3 album? For example when viewing a system folder would it then display the below music filetype attributes (without values of course…)instead of the normal system folder attributes?
By default, the detail view in my MP3 folders (which I have specified to contain music files) shows me: FileName / FileSize / FileType / Artist / AlbumTitle / Year / Track# / Duration
Since my file names all contain 4 of those 7 fields, what I wish to see is: FileName / Duration / Bitrate / FileSize / FileType / Date Created / Date Modified
Sorry if I’m making this more complicated than need be, it’s a bit of a stretch for my abilities…