I recently bought Windows 8.1, and I was excited to use the new Libraries feature in the explorer, since I have my personal folders spread over several disks.
However, when I change the layout in one library, every library of the same "type" (the "optimize for" setting in the library properties) changes to show with the same layout in both the root and all subfolders.
This is annoying, because I want to show for example my Downloads library as a "detailed list", while my Dropbox library should be "large icons". And further, I have one library with only shortcuts to my games, which I have created large box cover icons for, and I'd like to show them off as "extra large icons". But since I have all of them optimized as "general items", they all change if I change just one.
I don't want to have to assign different optimizations to different folders either just to have different views, since that would mess up the purpose of the special tab in the ribbon.
Is this my explorer being crazy or is it an actual limitation of the libraries system? And above all, can it be worked around?
However, when I change the layout in one library, every library of the same "type" (the "optimize for" setting in the library properties) changes to show with the same layout in both the root and all subfolders.
This is annoying, because I want to show for example my Downloads library as a "detailed list", while my Dropbox library should be "large icons". And further, I have one library with only shortcuts to my games, which I have created large box cover icons for, and I'd like to show them off as "extra large icons". But since I have all of them optimized as "general items", they all change if I change just one.
I don't want to have to assign different optimizations to different folders either just to have different views, since that would mess up the purpose of the special tab in the ribbon.
Is this my explorer being crazy or is it an actual limitation of the libraries system? And above all, can it be worked around?