Ability to change attributes recursively.

[TheQwerty]

In Windows Explorer if you attempt to change the properties of a non-empty folder you get a dialog asking if the change should be applied to just this folder or to the folder, its subfolders, and files.

XY needs this ability as well, but I'd like to see an implementation that avoids the dialog prompt.

Some options:
1) A third icon, multiple overlapping +s, would apply the change to the contents.
2) Giving/Making the + icon a context menu where the user selects the mode. Perhaps making it like the back/forward/up TB icons, so that j_c won't have to right click.
3) Adding a check box with the icons that can toggle the modes and remembers the state.


Thoughts?


NOTES: I'm really only wishing this for changing attributes, but there might be someone out there that would like this for the date/times as well.

[Linkaday]

Yes - would be very useful every now and then!

[admin]

You can do that already easily by "show all items in branch", then select all, then do your attribute or time stamping.

[avsfan]

You can do that already easily by "show all items in branch", then select all, then do your attribute or time stamping.

I hadn't used this option before, and went looking for it, and finally found it on the "Edit" menu (when I thought it would be on the "View" menu).

Would it make more sense to have it on the "View" menu, perhaps right above or below the "Show->" submenu option? It just seems to me that this is more of a "view" setting than an edit setting (though it's always a challenge to figure out how to categorize these things...)

Just a thought...

andy

[admin]

You can do that already easily by "show all items in branch", then select all, then do your attribute or time stamping.

I hadn't used this option before, and went looking for it, and finally found it on the "Edit" menu (when I thought it would be on the "View" menu).

Would it make more sense to have it on the "View" menu, perhaps right above or below the "Show->" submenu option? It just seems to me that this is more of a "view" setting than an edit setting (though it's always a challenge to figure out how to categorize these things...)

Just a thought...

andy

It's under Edit because it's simply a ready-made Find job. You can achieve the same by searching for "*" with include subfolders ON and all other filters OFF.

[jacky]

It's under Edit because it's simply a ready-made Find job. You can achieve the same by searching for "*" with include subfolders ON and all other filters OFF.

Yeah, actually it's just a name search: "?* /r"

[Linkaday]

You can do that already easily by "show all items in branch", then select all, then do your attribute or time stamping.

admin wrote:
It's under Edit because it's simply a ready-made Find job. You can achieve the same by searching for "*" with include subfolders ON and all other filters OFF.

Yeah, actually it's just a name search: "?* /r"

Ouch! Sittin there in the menu and lookin at me all the time!
I better not claim comin from CPM days ever more! Thanks for enlightenment - to both of you! Can anyone want more automation?

[TheQwerty]

Quite frankly I don't find that an acceptable solution.

That involves browsing away from my current view, and makes it a pain if I did a search to find the folders to update in the first place (especially since I prefer using a single dedicated search results tab instead of multiple).