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subfolder strife

#1 Post by Paul Unger » Fri Nov 05, 2010 5:36 pm

Another Windows 7 niggle... In Windows Explorer, if you double-click on an item with subfolders, it will get kicked down to the bottom of the folder tree view (left pane), effectively hiding all the subfolders that you double-clicked on the parent folder to see! :evil: Is there any way around this (other than clicking on the miniscule arrow beside parent folders)?
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Re: subfolder strife

#2 Post by Paul Unger » Wed Dec 08, 2010 11:14 pm

I don't bump many things, but I'm going to bump this. Does anyone have any idea about this? Is there a setting I can change to alter this behaviour (XP didn't do this!). Thanks.
X230 2324-HW5 3.3GHz (i5), W7 (64)
T430s 2352-CTO 2.60GHz (i5), W7 (64)
X201 3249-CTO 2.53GHz (i5), W7 (64)
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Re: subfolder strife

#3 Post by Harryc » Thu Dec 09, 2010 5:08 am

This does not happen to me, but then again I do not have any long folder trees. I think 2 or 3 sub-folders deep is the longest I have.

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Re: subfolder strife

#4 Post by Paul Unger » Thu Dec 09, 2010 3:04 pm

Most of the comments here and here seem to experience what I do--that when you expand a folder, said folder moves to the bottom of the pane and the subfolders disappear from sight. For the record, this happened with my x201 from the date of delivery (i.e., factory install of W7).

Edit: you can also look here and here for more users who experience the same behaviour.
X230 2324-HW5 3.3GHz (i5), W7 (64)
T430s 2352-CTO 2.60GHz (i5), W7 (64)
X201 3249-CTO 2.53GHz (i5), W7 (64)
T42 2373-3UU 1.7GHz (PM), XP SP3 / Ubuntu 9.04
T42 2373-4TU 1.7GHz (PM), XP SP3

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Re: subfolder strife

#5 Post by ashleys » Fri Dec 10, 2010 10:00 am

Sorry, missed this thread when first raised ...

I don't seem to get that behaviour at all. Explorer works pretty much as I would expect. I have amended some of the settings, so that may explain it.

Settings as follows,
Explorer > Tools > Folder Options > General Tab > Navigation Pane
Show All Folders - Unticked
Automatically Expand to current folder - Ticked

Not sure if I altered any options in the Advanced Settings of the View tab, sorry.

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Re: subfolder strife

#6 Post by bill bolton » Fri Dec 10, 2010 5:44 pm

Paul Unger wrote:Is there any way around this (other than clicking on the miniscule arrow beside parent folders)?
It doesn't happen on any of my Win 7 systems (which include both clean installations and in-place upgrades from Vista).

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