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russianlinesman
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 Posted: Tuesday February 27th, 2007 16:40 Post subject: organising bmx |
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| how can i make windows xp display my .bmxs with the most recently modified everytime i go to open. instead of having to set it up each time i go to open a new file manually? is it possible? i was win 98. |
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| Posted: Tuesday February 27th, 2007 17:58 Post subject: |
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no idea, those clicks are fully automatic for me. if i am just scanning through my songs folder i often keep a sorted explorer window open from which i can drag bmx without going through the file->open->view->details->resize->sort sequence for each of the bmx i listen into.
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Lee_dC
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| Posted: Tuesday February 27th, 2007 19:50 Post subject: Re: organising bmx |
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| russianlinesman wrote: | | how can i make windows xp display my .bmxs with the most recently modified everytime i go to open. instead of having to set it up each time i go to open a new file manually? is it possible? i was win 98. |
right-click on the header in the file window and enabled "Date modified"? then u just have to click that header to sort by them. or i think theres a way to save settings per folder. |
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mute
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| Posted: Wednesday February 28th, 2007 12:32 Post subject: Re: organising bmx |
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| Lee_dC wrote: | | russianlinesman wrote: | | how can i make windows xp display my .bmxs with the most recently modified everytime i go to open. instead of having to set it up each time i go to open a new file manually? is it possible? i was win 98. |
right-click on the header in the file window and enabled "Date modified"? then u just have to click that header to sort by them. or i think theres a way to save settings per folder. |
exactly. or you can apply a layout as the default for all folders. im pretty surprised by this question actually. sorting on the fly by date name, creation, modification, last viewed, etc. is really easy stuff in windows (and basically identical in method/function on every os) and i use it every time i have a folder open.
you have to make sure you are looking at the "detailed list view" as well.
after you've added the date modified column, goto Tools -> Folder Options -> and either press "Apply to all folders" or find the check box "Remember each folder's view settings" and check it. Then hit apply, close every folder you have open and then reopen the directory. You don't have to this every time.. just the first time you enable '..each folder view' or apply settings to to all the folders.
"Tiled" view has been a pet-peeve of mine since like 1901.  I've annoyed countless people in the past by changing the default behavior/look of their folders while using their computer  "eh,.. they'll eventually love it". |
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| Posted: Wednesday February 28th, 2007 18:11 Post subject: |
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mute, you're not Y2K compliant!
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russianlinesman
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| Posted: Wednesday February 28th, 2007 18:14 Post subject: Re: organising bmx |
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| mute wrote: | | im pretty surprised by this question actually. |
yep no shame. |
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russianlinesman
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| Posted: Wednesday February 28th, 2007 18:56 Post subject: |
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besides that didnt solve it. it opens fine as i wanted in explorer but if i go to open in buzz it doesnt keep the format. i want it to open like this and stay like this:
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mute
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| Posted: Wednesday February 28th, 2007 21:11 Post subject: |
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ah, you're talking about the open file dialog. it'll save your column types but you'll always have to resize and repick chose detailed list view. there are programs you can get that override default open file dialogs though... such as this:
http://www.plosive.net/buzz/img/buzz_file-ex.gif
some other apps have been suggested by users here. file-ex isn't free.. |
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usr
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heh, tiled view is about the most stupid thing ever*
(* a valid exception is tiled + preview, but even that would be completely unusable as a default)
mute, my comrade in explorer-reconfiguration, don't give up, one day we will have reconfigured them all  
ps: you could, of course, be a little mean to the makers of that commercial file dialog reconfiguration tool, and spy on it's doings with regmon 
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| usr wrote: | | ps: you could, of course, be a little mean to the makers of that commercial file dialog reconfiguration tool, and spy on it's doings with regmon |
actually.. its a bit like the download managers for internet explorer or firefox, etc. I think it just sets a generic msghook on all application windows and watches for a wm_create or wm_initdialog and then rapes or replaces the original. file-ex actually takes it a bit further because you can use either a whitelist or blacklist style setup so it only affects certain programs.
unfortunately.. i hate shit running in the background all the time or too many icons in my systray so i eventually gave up on such addons for use w/ buzz.
actually.. the other app just came to me. someone made a buzz addon application that does all of this stuff but just for the buzz.exe... lemme see if i can work some google magic. (many many minutes later) no luck. this person made a few tools.. i wonder if anyone can remember what this thing was called. |
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