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re: File details Music folder Saturday, October 17, 2009 at 10:03 am Posted by Steve (23810 messages posted) Yes but you have to individually set the folder view for all the sub Folders [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: File details Music folder Saturday, October 17, 2009 at 2:16 pm Posted by Trudy (3 messages posted) Rats. That is the problem. I was hoping there was a way NOT to have to do it that way. Thanks. On Saturday, October 17, 2009 at 10:03 am, Steve wrote: >Yes but you have to individually set the folder view for all the sub Folders [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: File details Music folder Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 9:05 am Posted by C K (6910 messages posted) It's how the file systems are designed. If/when they decide to design a whole new FS that has more flexibility built in, then maybe you will be able to. Think of it this way. You have a file cabinet with 100 folders in it. Each folder has 100 pieces of paper in it (the files). You keep the folders with catagory names on them but you don't put a description of what each piece of paper (file) is on the folder, or if there are any other folders within the main folder a description of them too. It's more work and more data that has to be written and maintained by the operating system. If you have ever noticed, that if you change the information in the tag of an MP3 file, the whole file is rewritten with the new tag info. Currently the same thing would have to happen if the same option was available for folders, unless there is a certian amount of space (it could be a little or a lot) dedicted to a "descrition or info area". That could potentially use up a lot of HDD space, which may not contain much if anything and just waste your HDD space. Now try rewriting a large folder and potentially all of it's files when a description or tag area is changed, and you won't get any work done. Rewriting the MP3 file or files (if making a change globally) takes place behind the scenes and depending on the speed of your hardware, you may not notice it, but you may/will notice HDD activity so that's what's going on. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: File details Music folder Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 11:43 am Posted by Trudy (3 messages posted) Thanks. Obviously I had given no thought to how the system would achieve this, but you have to admit that it would be nice to set the details applicable to music files though the My Music system folder and have it apply to all sub folders and files in My Music. Since so many amazing things are doable through Creative Element Power Tools I thought something might exist to make it easy to set the details for My Music. Thanks for taking time to write. Trudy On Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 9:05 am, C K wrote: >It's how the file systems are designed. If/when they decide to design a whole new >FS that has more flexibility built in, then maybe you will be able to. > >Think of it this way. You have a file cabinet with 100 folders in it. Each folder >has 100 pieces of paper in it (the files). You keep the folders with catagory names >on them but you don't put a description of what each piece of paper (file) is on >the folder, or if there are any other folders within the main folder a description >of them too. It's more work and more data that has to be written and maintained by >the operating system. > >If you have ever noticed, that if you change the information in the tag of an MP3 >file, the whole file is rewritten with the new tag info. Currently the same thing >would have to happen if the same option was available for folders, unless there is >a certian amount of space (it could be a little or a lot) dedicted to a "descrition >or info area". That could potentially use up a lot of HDD space, which may not contain >much if anything and just waste your HDD space. > >Now try rewriting a large folder and potentially all of it's files when a description >or tag area is changed, and you won't get any work done. Rewriting the MP3 file >or files (if making a change globally) takes place behind the scenes and depending >on the speed of your hardware, you may not notice it, but you may/will notice HDD >activity so that's what's going on. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum