Individual folder settings

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Morning Star
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Individual folder settings

Post by Morning Star »

Before I say anything else, let me mention that, Nikos, you are a star!
The individual folder customisation is one of the main features that I have been waiting for with x2... and now it's there... woot! :D

Anyway, there seems to be a couple of little issues with the way it works currently:

Firstly, it doesn't seem to work for 'special' folders, ie. the Control Panel, which is unfortunately one of the folders most in need of customisation...

Secondly, I assume the 'clear' function is supposed to remove any folder specific settings and restore that folder to the default view, yes? Unfortunately, while it correctly saves changes in the columns in details-view, the 'clear' function does not seem to restore the columns to the default settings.
(It will correctly restore the default columns if you change columns, 'save', then change to, say, thumbnails, 'save' again, then 'clear'.)
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Post by JRz »

Morning Star wrote:Firstly, it doesn't seem to work for 'special' folders, ie. the Control Panel, which is unfortunately one of the folders most in need of customisation...
Well, I think this will never work, because the special folders are not customizable at all. You can change the appearance, but the changes will never be saved (they have their own layout and this gets restored each time you visit a special folder)
Nikos mentioned this in another thread I believe...

So, customization of special folders is not possible, alas :(
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Post by nikos »

folder settings are saved in desktop.ini
since most virtual folders don't have a real folder behind them
(e.g. control panel is shared with system32)
you can't store options for them
(although registry would be an option)
so JRz is right

coming to the "clear" problem, i can't reproduce it
mind, when you clear old settings, the changes won't be seen immediately
but if you get out and back in again, you'll see them
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Post by nikos »

actually there is a problem with folder settings after all
once you change view style (even without saving/clearing) and then you change folder, the original view style is reset. What an insult! Who wrote this piece of sh@t? :)

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