key or item to expand subfolders in the tree?

JDucharme · Post by **JDucharme** » 2009 Sep 15, 13:54

I'd like to expand all the subfolders under the active folder in the tree pane. I was looking for an option to do that under the menus.. is there a way to do that?

Thx

Post by **nikos** » 2009 Sep 15, 15:02

are you looking for alt+right_arrow?

JDucharme · Post by **JDucharme** » 2009 Sep 15, 17:39

that key combo does expand the first subfolder under the selected folder, and expands the subfolders under it in the same way. Two problems:

1. I had trouble using the combination at first, seemed like it was picky on how i did it, because i had "shift focus automatically to view" selected in the tree pane options.

2. the alt-right arrow combo is cool to expand the first subfolder and it's first subfolder and so forth, but is there an arrow combination that will expand ALL subfolders and all subfolders within those folders, etc?

Note:
could we have menu items for these key combinations? (like under the View menu, in the same section as the tree stuff). I think it's a good way to see visually see what options are available for new users, such as myself!

fgagnon · Post by **fgagnon** » 2009 Sep 15, 20:35

nikos,

I thought the issue of Alt+Right_arrow not expanding ALL subfolders had been fixed a while back. But when hidden system junctions are shown, the tree expansion stops upon encountering the first [-HS-D---J] item. (checked on win7 RC build 7100).

JDucharme · Post by **JDucharme** » 2009 Sep 15, 23:45

I'm using Lite on Win Xp pro SP3. It's not expanding all sub folders by default. just the first one.. then the first subfolder in that subfolder.. etc.

I'm not familiar with Hidden Junctions. is that a windows 7 feature?

FYI..

the alt-arrow combo works on my local C drive, but not on my mapped drive.. if that helps at all...

Post by **nikos** » 2009 Sep 16, 05:11

if you want to expand all the tree, hilight the root (desktop) then press alt+right (then sit back and wait

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i believe whether it follows junctions or not depends on the "followjunctions" registry setting (see registry.txt)

fgagnon · Post by **fgagnon** » 2009 Sep 16, 12:21

@ follow junctions -
Whether or not x2 expands folder junctions in the tree should not keep it from moving on to the next folder items and expanding them.

btw - it makes no difference whether "follow junctions" is on or off for me. x2 never follows the system-generated ones on my win7 laptop. It does expand the junctions I create, whether or not the "followjunctions" bit is set.

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