Submission details
Synchronize Folder Treeview With Current Folder
I sometimes want to move an item to a lower level in the folder hierarchy. In Windows 6, it was easy to do this using the folder treeview by dragging the item to the new location in the tree because it was synchronized with my current folder.
With 7 this synchronization is off so I have to drill down from Computer all the way to the folder I'm currently in.
Synchronize the folder tree with the current folder in the explorer.
Low
Medium
Not fixed
Discussion (13 comments)
LOL...it's easier than saying Windows Vista/Server 2008 ;) Yes I know technically they are going based on the NT Kernel number.
This is already implemented! Press the right mouse button, there is an option (don't know the name) that opens the actual folder in the tree view.
So -1
Yes but in Vista/2008 it's done automatically.
In Vista there was a second navigation pane.
If you enable that feature, it will work almost like in Vista.
@Tino, getting rid of the 2nd navigation pane was a great idea, they have integrated both into the same place now.
There should be a Advanced Setting in the Folder Options dialog to auto-sync at least.
@caze: No need for this. It is implemented: right-click the navigation page and check "Expand to current folder".
So this should be marked as already fixed.
nope, there should be the option to go back to the old functionality which was auto-sync.
and I just realised another thing that make right-clicking and 'expand to current folder' hard to use, if you've got loads of folders expanded and they take up the entire pane, because of the new style of full row selection (terrible idea) it can be impossible to get the context menu at all (you end up with a shell item context menu).
@craze: Have you tried it for yourself? If you activate the checkbox, the navigation pane will always auto-sync.
it doesn't for me, you need to use the context menu every time you change folder
hmm. actually it does, could've sworn it didn't the first time I checked. This behavior is ok, though it would still be nice to be able to turn it on by default.
This option is now in the folder options dialog, fixed.
Demote. How hard is it to turn on a checkbox option in Folder options to sync it?
Ensign Joe wrote on November 19, 2008, 5:04pm
-1 because you are one of the people I hate who are calling Windows by their version number so Windows 2000 is 5.0 for you and 5.1. And this is also wrong as it is Windows NT 5.0, 5.1 and 6.0....