Folder views - need 4 different view 'categories'





Hi all,

I have some folders that that need detail views, some that need detail views but need different columns to display, and some folders that need thumbnail views.

For My Music folders I want to see bit rate, duration, title, artist, size, etc.
For My Documents I want different details, like create date, mod date, subject, author, etc.
For My Pictures I want Thumbnail view.
For other folders I will want detail view but will want different columns than My Documents.

I realize I can change ALL FOLDERS to have the same view as the one I am in, but that doesn't really help me because I have to change several other folders to have their own view.

Not whining, but I have lots and lots of folders......

I would like to go to a 'main' folder and set the view, and have an option to apply that view to ALL folders OR apply to all Subfolders.
Maybe I dreamed it, but it seems I read something that you can do like that. I remember it required that you change your folders view to 'Show common tasks', which I do not have enabled normally. So tonight I tried 'Show common tasks in folders', but still found no option to affect change to subfolders.

Anyone know if it is possible? Or does anybody know of a 3rd party folder manager that would do this?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Ck
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