I'm organzing HUNDREDS of graphics on my machine in Windows Explorer. I
created basic folders with titles to organize them into. Now I am finding my
old folders that hold my graphics and am dragging them into the newly created
folders.

Problem is ever time I drag one over, the new folder automatically opens up
to display all the files in it. Is there a way to stop that?

I have to close the folder every time because it then pushes my other
folders below out of sight.

Is it possible to force folders to NOT open when dragging items or folders
into
them via Windows Explorer?

Thanks so much!
Nancy

Have you tried only draging the contents of those folders?
"Nancy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I'm organzing HUNDREDS of graphics on my machine in Windows Explorer. I
> created basic folders with titles to organize them into. Now I am finding
> my
> old folders that hold my graphics and am dragging them into the newly
> created
> folders.
>
> Problem is ever time I drag one over, the new folder automatically opens
> up
> to display all the files in it. Is there a way to stop that?
>
> I have to close the folder every time because it then pushes my other
> folders below out of sight.
>
> Is it possible to force folders to NOT open when dragging items or folders
> into
> them via Windows Explorer?
>
> Thanks so much!
> Nancy
>

Nancy wrote:
> I'm organzing HUNDREDS of graphics on my machine in Windows
> Explorer. I created basic folders with titles to organize them
> into. Now I am finding my old folders that hold my graphics and am
> dragging them into the newly created folders.
>
> Problem is ever time I drag one over, the new folder automatically
> opens up to display all the files in it. Is there a way to stop
> that?
>
> I have to close the folder every time because it then pushes my
> other folders below out of sight.
>
> Is it possible to force folders to NOT open when dragging items or
> folders into them via Windows Explorer?

I think you are hovering too long.

Are you using "Windows Explorer" in the classical sense - with the folder
list on the left - file list on the right? Or "My Computer" - with just a
big list of everything?

Is this a laptop with a touchpad by chance?

Open "My Computer" --> "Tools" --> "Folder Options" --> "General" tab...
What is the setting under "Click Items as Follows"?

If you drag and drop using the right mouse button instead of the left - what
happens?

If you highlight what you want (as many as you want- using SHIFT or CTRL)
and then right-click on the higlighted (or one of them) and choose "cut" and
then right-click on the folder you want to put it all in and choose
"paste" - does that work for you?

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

What did work is when I only opened one explorer and drug from the right
screen to the left. The other way around open the folder. However I need two
Window Explorers open jsut due to the long list of files.

That said I figured something out. Both my newly created folders and my
graphic files in the old folders were on the same drive. I moved the new
folders that I drag things into on a different drive. I know have 2 window
explorers open and I can drag from the old drive to the new one on teh 2nd
explorer and it does not open the folder. So I guess that solves my problem.

It was a minor thing but due to how much was in each folder and how many I
have to move it was adding quite a bit more time to an already time consuming
project.

Thanks for you ideas and help!

Nancy

"Shenan Stanley" wrote:

> Nancy wrote:
> > I'm organzing HUNDREDS of graphics on my machine in Windows
> > Explorer. I created basic folders with titles to organize them
> > into. Now I am finding my old folders that hold my graphics and am
> > dragging them into the newly created folders.
> >
> > Problem is ever time I drag one over, the new folder automatically
> > opens up to display all the files in it. Is there a way to stop
> > that?
> >
> > I have to close the folder every time because it then pushes my
> > other folders below out of sight.
> >
> > Is it possible to force folders to NOT open when dragging items or
> > folders into them via Windows Explorer?
>
> I think you are hovering too long.
>
> Are you using "Windows Explorer" in the classical sense - with the folder
> list on the left - file list on the right? Or "My Computer" - with just a
> big list of everything?
>
> Is this a laptop with a touchpad by chance?
>
> Open "My Computer" --> "Tools" --> "Folder Options" --> "General" tab...
> What is the setting under "Click Items as Follows"?
>
> If you drag and drop using the right mouse button instead of the left - what
> happens?
>
> If you highlight what you want (as many as you want- using SHIFT or CTRL)
> and then right-click on the higlighted (or one of them) and choose "cut" and
> then right-click on the folder you want to put it all in and choose
> "paste" - does that work for you?
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
> --
> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
>
>