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Windows Forum / Internet Explorer / General Topics / October 2007Fix IE7 Add to Favorites problem - Please vote YES to fix!
Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) Favorites problem A new ‘feature’ of IE7 appears to be it’s auto-expansion of every favorite folder when you click on add-to-favorites. The problem is I have a highly organized massive amount of folders nested multiple levels deep and the indentations are quite small. This makes for a cumbersome visual overload that is quite unwieldy. I would much prefer that all of my folders remain closed by default and I can click on each one to expand it and then it’s logical child counterpart as appropriate and so on. This would make the system much more user friendly for me as I am wasting a huge amount of time trying to find my way around at the moment. Is there an option in IE7 to collapse all folders during the Add to Favorites process? If so what is it? I have found the following settings under Internet Options Advanced but they did not seem to help. Maybe someone could explain what they do – Browsing – Close unused folders in History and Favorites Browsing – Enable personalized favorites menu Browsing – Enable TP folder view (outside of Internet Explorer) >Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) >Favorites problem [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] >Browsing Enable personalized favorites menu >Browsing Enable TP folder view (outside of Internet Explorer) snip From what I have read in here some people have problems with favorites opening automatically and some don't. My test version operates normally and I have not been able to reproduce or seen elsewhere this exact behaviour as yet. I have not put it on a production machine though and there are only about 20 or so in the first place. It seems people with huge amounts of favorites are prone to this problem, maybe there are limits., nested folder bugs, I dunno. I have seen one poor girl whos IE7 attempted (and failed) to open every single link every time it was started and she had taken to using a hard re-set to get her PC back, bad install I assume so I got it back to IE6 for her and blocked IE7 with the MSFT blocker tool, a very popular download from MSFT at the moment. As for the settings I have used the tweaks posted here to restore the menu bar to its proper place and get rid of the pointless (for me) search bar as like many people I use the clean uncluttered Google as my homepage. I don't know what the other settings do, not very much useful as far as I can tell. I suggest you uninstall it for the time being and go back to IE6 for a while - let some other mug beta test it for you. 8-) Jonah It's working two different ways on my home network. Computer 1: I click a favorites folder > it expands and stays expanded. When I click a different favorites folder, the first one collapses, and the second one expands. VERY NICE. Computer 2: I click a favorites folder > it expands and stays expanded. When I click a different favorites folder, the first one stays expanded, and the second one expands. VERY ANNOYING. There must be a setting somewhere! Help... Got my own answer to this through searching... Merry Xmas! If you go to Tools > Internet Options > Advanced, select Close unused folders in history and favorites. Though, now that I re-read this thread, I'm not sure if this is the problem we're discussing. If not, my bad... > It's working two different ways on my home network. > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > There must be a setting somewhere! Help... Not only do I have that problem but when I select Favorites from the Menu Bar and click on Add to Favorites none of my Favorites or in order....they are however in order in the Favorites window and when you initially click on Favorites from the menu bar....only when I click on Add does this happen....it is very annoying because I have a huge amount of nested Favorites as well. Please fix this problem! > Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) > Favorites problem [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > > http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx?mid=9275 1a92-e621-4f76-9e39-c0bb44a44a5a&dg=microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general The functionality of the Add to Favorites with EVERY freaking folder open is really pissing me off and no one seems to have a fix. What idiot thought I needed or wanted to see every folder and subfolder within my favorites at once? I have had vista for a few months and I'm about fed up. Once I switch back to firefox, I'll be done with IE for good. Microsoft, if you're out there, you have about two weeks to fix or you've lost one customer for good. My next OS will be Linux. > The functionality of the Add to Favorites with EVERY freaking folder > open is really pissing me off and no one seems to have a fix. What [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > for good. Microsoft, if you're out there, you have about two weeks to > fix or you've lost one customer for good. My next OS will be Linux. haha yeh It appears, that IE7 allows to "add a favorite" in a tree, but you should add to the "favorites center"'s tree and not through the menu. Read this message: http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx?dg=micro soft.public.internetexplorer.general&mid=0de24670-e6d6-4ae6-8c5f-797529eaa81b&sl oc=en-us > The functionality of the Add to Favorites with EVERY freaking folder > open is really pissing me off and no one seems to have a fix... Pinning the Favorites Center is not a fix since it eats up space in the frame. The whole point of tabbed browsing is for quick access and IE6 add to favorites worked fine with the non-collapsed folder tree. Whoever thought that expanding the tree when trying to add a bookmark should be fired since it is penalizing people that organize their bookmarks into folders and have a lot of bookmarks saved. I have about 35 main bookmark folders and then each have their own subfolders with some of those having subfolders. With the difficulties in adding a bookmark having to scroll through so many folders just to find the folder I want to add it to, I end up just adding them to the main Favorites directory then I have to go to my Favorites folder in Windows Explorer and move them manually. As technology advances, it is supposed to become easier not take 3 steps backwards reverting to older outdated ideas of bookmark management. After a year and still no fix means that their probably will never be one and as my frustration grows more so each day dealing with these annoyances, I keep looking for alternatives that will mean I will probably be switching to a different Internet Browser. Microsoft should be trying to keep people using IE7 and not drive them away with poor decisions, like one other user suggested, they should release an Internet Explorer TweakUi power toy that fixes the problem if Microsoft will not add the option in the menus directly. > It appears, that IE7 allows to "add a favorite" in a tree, but you should add > to the "favorites center"'s tree and not through the menu. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > The functionality of the Add to Favorites with EVERY freaking folder > > open is really pissing me off and no one seems to have a fix... I've redirected my Favo(u)rites to the root of my Documents system folder, and now the favo(u)rite pane is blank although the add to favo(u)rite button still works. Curiously, I have the option Close unused folders in history and favorites checked and now it isn't working! > I've redirected my Favo(u)rites to the root of my Documents system > folder, Explain how you did that. I should have worked if you dragged the folder from one location to another. > and now the favo(u)rite pane is blank although the add to > favo(u)rite button still works. My guess would be that you don't have desktop.ini (hidden) in there now? > Curiously, I have the option Close > unused folders in history and favorites checked and now it isn't > working! HTH Robert Aldwinckle --- The message at the end of this link does not have a fix to the "add to favorites" exploded tree problem (item 2 in the messages list of described problems). The developer (developerz) even agrees that the exploded tree is a frequently mentioned problem, but has no fix. I do find it curious that MS took the time to respond to that post, but can not find the time to respond to posts in this group (and similar) where we are expressing our outrage that MS took a giant leap backward in favorites management. ATedK > It appears, that IE7 allows to "add a favorite" in a tree, but you should add > to the "favorites center"'s tree and not through the menu. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > The functionality of the Add to Favorites with EVERY freaking folder > > open is really pissing me off and no one seems to have a fix... Non collapsing favorites folders. Agggggggghhhhhhhhh My favorites used to be well organised and productive. Since IE7 they are a total mess. Do Microsoft really want people to move to Firefox -they have made a very strong case by adding this "feature" to IE7. The problem has remained unfixed for far too long - Let's vote with our feet and bail out. > Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) > Favorites problem [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > > http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx?mid=9275 1a92-e621-4f76-9e39-c0bb44a44a5a&dg=microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general |
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