I've observed this, and it's made me curious...
When using the cascading breadcrumbs to navigate to 'My Documents', the 'My Pictures' and 'My Music' folders are not shown unless 'Show Hidden files and folders' is checked.
Ok, 'My Pictures' and 'My Music' are "special" folders, but they're not hidden folders. Shouldn't whatever folders show in x2's pane appear in the breadcrumbs?
Anyway, I'm enjoying using the breadcrumbs; it's a fine addition to x2's feature-set.
(x2 1.7.0.4 on XP Pro SP2)
Trail of breadcrumbs doesn't lead to My Pictures
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longfellow
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re bread crumbs
man the bread crumbs got eaten by the Microsoft birds
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longfellow
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Ok, thanks Nikos, your reply gave me the clue I needed to resolve this.
Like I said, 'My Pictures' and 'My Music' are not hidden files, but you're right, they are system files. This made me remember that TweakUI has a function which repairs various system aspects.
I opened TweakUI, went to the Repair tab, and, indeed, TweakUI has options to repair both the 'My Pictures' and 'My Music' folders. After repairing these folders, 'My Pictures' and 'My Music' appear in the breadcrumbs (without 'Show hidden files' being on).
Like I said, 'My Pictures' and 'My Music' are not hidden files, but you're right, they are system files. This made me remember that TweakUI has a function which repairs various system aspects.
I opened TweakUI, went to the Repair tab, and, indeed, TweakUI has options to repair both the 'My Pictures' and 'My Music' folders. After repairing these folders, 'My Pictures' and 'My Music' appear in the breadcrumbs (without 'Show hidden files' being on).
Just curious: TweakUI simply got rid of the system attribute on these folders I presume? If not, can you determine what it did do?longfellow wrote:[...]I opened TweakUI, went to the Repair tab, and, indeed, TweakUI has options to repair both the 'My Pictures' and 'My Music' folders. After repairing these folders, 'My Pictures' and 'My Music' appear in the breadcrumbs (without 'Show hidden files' being on).
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longfellow
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No, as far as I can tell, TweakUI hasn't changed the system attribute.
TweakUI implements all its tweaks through the registry, so I'm assuming that when it repaired 'My Pictures' and 'My Music', it simply restored the keys to these folders back to their default state.
It would seem that (on my system) these keys had become corrupted, preventing the breadcrumbs from seeing 'My Pictures' and 'My Music'; once they were restored to their default state, the breadcrumbs could see the folders again.
TweakUI implements all its tweaks through the registry, so I'm assuming that when it repaired 'My Pictures' and 'My Music', it simply restored the keys to these folders back to their default state.
It would seem that (on my system) these keys had become corrupted, preventing the breadcrumbs from seeing 'My Pictures' and 'My Music'; once they were restored to their default state, the breadcrumbs could see the folders again.