Unfortunately, this is NOT an intuitive process and requires going into two places-one to set it up how you want, then another to save it to that ‘template’. Changing the attributes one folder at a time is NOT what you want to do!īut if you change the underlying template’s attributes, you can then apply that template to a high-level folder containing files with that type of content, and the changes you make cascade to all subfolders and to other folders that have the same template applied to them. So when Microsoft stuffs up the attributes displayed, this can anger these users because they likely have many thousands of files in many hundreds or thousands of folders that get reset to the default values. These people work with their files every day and need to see at a glance the attributes that interest them. But for some people the attributes shown in Explorer are hugely important-for example, photographers or anyone who needs to curate their photos musicians or those who have an extensive music collection on their computers movie buffs with thousands of videos etc. Many others have no idea that these attributes shown can be changed, or have no need to change them. For most people, this is of no consequence and they can live with the default settings, or perhaps change them every so often if they want to see other attributes. This one has Videos set as the template-its Details view has similar attribute columns, with the addition of the length of the videos in hours, minutes, and seconds. The template used dictates what attribute columns you see in Details view in Explorer ( View > Details).īelow is a folder with Documents set as the template-in Details view you can see that the file name, date modified, file type, and file size attributes are shown. If Windows detects that all the files are image files or music files or document files, it might default to the attributes of those templates instead. What am I talking about? Well, when you create a new folder in Explorer and add files to it, by default the attributes shown for that folder and its files in the Details view use the General Items template (you can see the template used by right-clicking on a folder, selecting Properties, and checking what is set on the Customize tab under Optimize this folder for). Microsoft rarely calls these templates, but that’s what they behave like, so I’ll call them templates here. No, this post is on how to change the displayed attributes for a file type template and thus ALL files/folders that use that template. This post is not about changing the file attributes displayed for one or two files/folders-there are plenty of other sites that will tell you how to that. A recent major Windows update on my PC totally screwed with the settings I had for folder/file views in Windows Explorer (which I’ll call Explorer in this post).
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