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Re: Default view of folders reverts back to previous settings.
Post back with results, please.
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Good Luck,
Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
"Jeff Ingram" <ingramje29@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks for the reply. I'll have to look at it a little more closely...
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeff
>
> "Keith Miller MVP" <k.miller79@no.spam.verizon.net> wrote in message
> news:ucA580mcHHA.4352@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> 'Apply to Folders' in Vista works on a per-template basis. Different
>> defaults can be saved for 'All Items', 'Documents', 'Pictures & Video',
>> etc.
>> You need to be sure of what template the current folder is using before
>> using 'Apply to Folders'.
>>
>> This also means that the default will only be applied to folders of that
>> type.
>>
>> As for a specific folder forgetting it's view, folder views are unique
>> based on the namespace path to the folder -- the saved view for
>> 'Desktop\UserName\Pictures' has no bearing on the view of
>> 'Desktop\Computer\c:\Users\UserName\Pictures', it can remember different
>> view settings -- even use a different template. So make sure that's not
>> the cause of the discrepancy that you are seeing.
>>
>> If that's not it, post back. Lots of things we can check! :-)
>>
>>
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>> Good Luck,
>>
>> Keith
>> Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
>>
>> "Jeff Ingram" <ingramje29@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:etT%23SVmcHHA.4624@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> The default view of folders sometimes reverts back to previous settings.
>>> I've setup a folder with the view that I'd like for all of my folders,
>>> with
>>> Details, Size, Create Date, & Modified Date (turned off Tag since it's
>>> of no
>>> use to me whatsoever since I can't use it for MPEGS, AVIs, or Real
>>> files)
>>> and then clicked Tools/Folder Options, then clicked the View tab and
>>> under
>>> Folder Views, where it says: You can apply the view (such as Details or
>>> Icons) that your are using for this folder to all folders of this type.
>>> I
>>> click the "Apply to Folders" button.
>>>
>>> Later I'll come back to that very same folder and the view has changed.
>>> And
>>> not all of the other folders on the system have taken on those same
>>> settings.
>>>
>>> I know in XP all I had to do was the same procedure that I outlined
>>> above
>>> and I could get all my folders to look the same.
>>>
>>> What gives with Vista?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Jeff
>>
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