Why is this so hard in Windows?....10 or 11, it used to work. This is a computer, my directories are full of DATA, I don't care what that data is because it's DATA. I don't want different details because it's video or music content, I don't want to see thumbnails or tag info or ratings. I want to see a list of files and the same details in columns ALWAYS and in the same order. In every folder not matter which drive it is on, no matter which machine on my network etc., I want to see it the same.....ALWAYS. Is Windows just stupid, or maybe it's me because I cannot for the life of me get it to do this.
I thought you just had to set a default view, and pick the details you want and then you were done, used to be this way. But that doesn't work, even if I do this for ever drive. I work mostly with video files and occasionally I open up a directory and all the details are different, video specific, or worse yet the ugly thumbnails. Worse yet even if stays in detail view I often get different details. I always want to see "Length" but no matter what I do sometimes it is there, and sometimes not.....even if I choose the parent directory and specifically choose to copy the customizing to subfolders. Some directories in the parent folder will have length....some won't. This is frustrating because I use the length column as a comparison point when dealing with dupes.
What also irritates me is when using software that requires me to "open a file" the box that pops up should always have details view and the same details....but nope. This doesn't seem to follow any convention as to reason either because I can have a list of recorded content that were all recorded in the last 24 hours so it's new and one folder will show correctly and then the next show "video details". It doesn't happen often but it is annoying.
But the biggest problem for me is the "Length" column not being present. And it makes no sense why a general folder full of sub directories will have the length column even though it is empty but then some sub directories show the length column and some don't. I am not sure if this is because some of these directories have been copied or moved and sometimes multiple times in the organization process and are keeping the settings from the original location....but all should have the same because I have it set to default. I don't know if it's because I have two machines on the network that share all their drives....but both machines have the same default file settings even though Windows seems to have a will of it's own.
Am I missing something? Is there something I need to do to force Windows into the same default folder view with the same details no matter which drive or what content the drive contains?
I thought you just had to set a default view, and pick the details you want and then you were done, used to be this way. But that doesn't work, even if I do this for ever drive. I work mostly with video files and occasionally I open up a directory and all the details are different, video specific, or worse yet the ugly thumbnails. Worse yet even if stays in detail view I often get different details. I always want to see "Length" but no matter what I do sometimes it is there, and sometimes not.....even if I choose the parent directory and specifically choose to copy the customizing to subfolders. Some directories in the parent folder will have length....some won't. This is frustrating because I use the length column as a comparison point when dealing with dupes.
What also irritates me is when using software that requires me to "open a file" the box that pops up should always have details view and the same details....but nope. This doesn't seem to follow any convention as to reason either because I can have a list of recorded content that were all recorded in the last 24 hours so it's new and one folder will show correctly and then the next show "video details". It doesn't happen often but it is annoying.
But the biggest problem for me is the "Length" column not being present. And it makes no sense why a general folder full of sub directories will have the length column even though it is empty but then some sub directories show the length column and some don't. I am not sure if this is because some of these directories have been copied or moved and sometimes multiple times in the organization process and are keeping the settings from the original location....but all should have the same because I have it set to default. I don't know if it's because I have two machines on the network that share all their drives....but both machines have the same default file settings even though Windows seems to have a will of it's own.
Am I missing something? Is there something I need to do to force Windows into the same default folder view with the same details no matter which drive or what content the drive contains?
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