Help needed with folders

[Guest]

Hello, I'm hoping someone can help me with a problem I've been having for a
while with my folders on Windows XP.

The problem is with how the folders are associated - the templates for
documents, videos or pictures. No matter how many times I set them to the
type I want, they almost always change to something different. I've tried
'Reset All Folders' under Control Panel - Folder Options - View many times,
only for the problem to return soon afterwards, with folders changing at
random.

I could easily be missing something obvious, but the ordinary Help and
Support doesn't come up with anything useful. The most curious thing is that
it is doing this with the main 'My Documents' folders as well, with 'My
Videos' set to pictures, for example, and vice-versa.

Even when I try to assign one normal folder to 'documents' and 'apply
template to all subfolders', it doesn't work for long, with the settings
reverting to ones often totally unrelated to the folders' contents (currently
the 'My Music' folder is set to pictures). I don't know what I could have
done wrong or whatever setting I might have changed to make things this way.
I hope its not a sign of something really wrong, but right now it's just a
nuisance and it shouldn't be happening.

Hope someone can help....

 

[Keith Miller MVP]

Sounds like the index to saved views is full. Try running my script, using
the option to delete all currently saved views. That will give you a fresh
start. Here's the canned description & link:

I've written a script that will apply all the view customizations you can
set to all of a folder's
subfolders. Right-click the link below & save to your computer. The zip
file contains a readme
file & the script itself.

http://mysite.verizon.net/res18hr7/FVM3.zip

You can select a folder & configure its view settings, then those are set to
be inherited by all
subfolders (you have the option of saving or wiping out current saved views)
.. You can set a
default for My Pics, another for My Music, and then a more generic default
for My Computer. The
inheritance settings are separate from the folder view itself -- for
example, you can set a
non-grouped view to be the default inheritance for My Computer, then return
My Computer to its
standard 'group by type' layout after running the script without affecting
the default view you have
set.

 

[Guest]

Oh, that script worked wonders. I've reset all the folders I needed to.
Thank-you very much for your assistance.

 

[Keith Miller MVP]

You're welcome. Thanks for the feedback.

 

[Poprivet]

Sounds like the index to saved views is full. Try running my script,
using the option to delete all currently saved views. That will give
you a fresh start. Here's the canned description & link:

I've written a script that will apply all the view customizations you
can set to all of a folder's
subfolders. Right-click the link below & save to your computer. The
zip file contains a readme
file & the script itself.

http://mysite.verizon.net/res18hr7/FVM3.zip

You can select a folder & configure its view settings, then those are
set to be inherited by all
subfolders (you have the option of saving or wiping out current saved
views) . You can set a
default for My Pics, another for My Music, and then a more generic
default for My Computer. The
inheritance settings are separate from the folder view itself -- for
example, you can set a
non-grouped view to be the default inheritance for My Computer, then
return My Computer to its
standard 'group by type' layout after running the script without
affecting the default view you have
set.
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Interesting little utility; I'll grab it, for "just in case". However, the
time I ran into that problem, somewhere in the back of my head it seems like
I was able to increase the number of folders in the list, instead. I can't
recall the details now, but ...

-- Does your utility address the size of that store?
Seems like without increasing it, the problem will just re-occur down the
road?
-- What is it I'm trying to remember ;-)? I -think- the original # was
about 500?
-- Any chance you have a URL I could read to learn more about that?

TIA,

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[Steve Myers]

Interesting little utility; I'll grab it, for "just in case".
However, the time I ran into that problem, somewhere in the back of my
head it seems like I was able to increase the number of folders in the
list, instead. I can't recall the details now, but ...

I have this old Andrew Milne post lying around. Maybe it will help:

Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam and create a
new DWORD Value called "BagMRU Size", and give it a decimal value of say
2,000. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell and do the
same.

The value determines the number of folders for which XP remembers the view
settings (the default is 400). Hope this helps.

Andrew Milne

 

[Keith Miller MVP]

The max limit is 8000. The pre-SP2 default was 400. SP2 upped it to 5000.
If your current limit is not at the maximum, my script offers to set it to
the max.

 

[Poprivet]

I have this old Andrew Milne post lying around. Maybe it will help:

Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam and
create a new DWORD Value called "BagMRU Size", and give it a decimal
value of say 2,000. Go to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell and do the same.

The value determines the number of folders for which XP remembers the
view settings (the default is 400). Hope this helps.

Andrew Milne

That's it; thanks.

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[Poprivet]

The max limit is 8000. The pre-SP2 default was 400. SP2 upped it to
5000. If your current limit is not at the maximum, my script offers
to set it to the max.

Yeah, thanks! It occurred to me that I've reinstalled a couple of times
since then and cannot recall having to set it again, in fact. Must be when
SP2 came along took care of it in my case.

Regards,

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