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   Dragonlair
   Member

   Just in the past few days, I'm having to reset to MY preferences the columns and settings for file manager with Win 10 several times a day!

   It suddenly adds groups (where I have none) and adds/rearranges/deletes columns from what I have set.

   It's one thing to do it when I create a new folder and it uses its "default" but even long standing ones - like Downloads are doing it all the time. Without File Manager being closed, it changes!

   What happened? What can I do to stop it and leave things the way I want them to be?

   HELP!!!!

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   mikiem2
   Moderator

   I didn't see anything using Google, which of course you've already checked, but it sounds *slightly* similar to a problem I've had a few times... I have File Explorer set to show everything, all the hidden & system files etc., and a few times it's reverted to the default with everything hidden. When I tried to change it back it wouldn't work. Turns out BitDefender security software was preventing the changes, so I had to boot into Safe Mode, set the File Explorer options I wanted, then boot back into Windows.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   Dragonlair
   Member

   I think I have an idea what is going on! I don't use my Users\<username>\ folder for my media (music and video). I recently changed where that was going by moving the "Media" folder to a different location. That worked fine but it was considered a "new" folder so took the default columns. If I play with those columns - remove "Type" and move "Size" before "Date Modified", it makes these changes to my Downloads folder. If I fix that, they often go funny!

   It's Microsoft trying to dictate how I look at things, plain and simple. From the start with Win 3.1, Microsoft has been trying to take control from users. They think we're idiots and don't know how to do things!

   That change to "Media" also seemed to be causing my OLD (7 versions back) of CyberLink (came with the PC) to create empty an empty "Media" folder in the old location but I think I may have gotten around that -- still checking. When I moved the folder, the system pointers updated fine but it seems like Cyberlink very low down in the programming didn't update until I changed to default and then changed to the new location (without Cyberlink running). It doesn't make a lot of sense but it seems to be working.

   BTW - one of the first things I do whenever I get a new PC/Laptop is "unhide" ALL folders I can. It's better up front before you install much. The more there, the LONGER it takes!

   I wish I could DEFINE easily what I want as default columns and their order.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   mikiem2
   Moderator

   Windows handles moving its folders EXTREMELY POORLY. Some will let you move them, some won't, and the choices aren't always consistent in different copies of Windows. I consider the default location for User files [on the system partition] as a bad choice -- I feel they're safer on another partition, e.g., if something goes wrong and I restore a backup from a couple of weeks ago, the only files that have likely changed are those User files, and I don't want to revert them to older copies. So I moved the Roaming folder -- the only one this copy of Windows would let me move -- and now I have to deal with 2 copies (!). Over time Windows recreated the original folders, which some apps use, while others use the correct folder that's been moved.

   Posted 1 year ago #

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