How to get rid of the '+' sign next to folders when no subfolders present?

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chumbo
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How to get rid of the '+' sign next to folders when no subfolders present?

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For some odd reason, when browsing folders, regardless of whether that folder contains any subfolders or not, it will always have a '+' sign to its left to expand it?
I would prefer to have the Windows Explorer behavior where, if the folder doesn't contain any subfolder, you won't see a '+' sign to expand it.
I imagine there is somewhere a setting to change it to mimic this behavior?
Thanks in advance!

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Re: How to get rid of the '+' sign next to folders when no subfolders present?

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Tick Configuration | General | Tree and List | Tree | Check existence of subfolders in tree.

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Re: How to get rid of the '+' sign next to folders when no subfolders present?

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Check the option for "Check existence of subfolders in tree" in Configuration > General > Tree and List will do what you want but will probably slow things down slightly.
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Re: How to get rid of the '+' sign next to folders when no subfolders present?

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Perfect, thanks! ;)

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Re: How to get rid of the '+' sign next to folders when no subfolders present?

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Hmm...maybe not so perfect after all :eh: .
At every start up, it has to check every folder, which lasts a few minutes and makes a hell of a noise on my hard drive and disrupts using XY until finished.
I can see myself disabling it because it's going to get annoying very quickly I'm afraid :cry: .
Thanks anyway!

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Re: How to get rid of the '+' sign next to folders when no subfolders present?

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Minutes??? It takes less than a second here. How large is your tree???

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Re: How to get rid of the '+' sign next to folders when no subfolders present?

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I...don't know? I'm not even sure what is a 'tree'? I have a 10TB hard drive sitting on my desk, that's the one making all the noise for +- 2 minutes.

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Re: How to get rid of the '+' sign next to folders when no subfolders present?

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After startup run this to find out what's going on:

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text <get loadtimes>;

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Re: How to get rid of the '+' sign next to folders when no subfolders present?

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when you say 'run this', can you elaborate? How/where do I do that exactly?

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Re: How to get rid of the '+' sign next to folders when no subfolders present?

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Address Bar, script assigned to a catalog entry (see below):
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or any other way you can run a script command in XY.
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Re: How to get rid of the '+' sign next to folders when no subfolders present?

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You can run this via:
  • in the address bar (where your path is displayed), just enter "::text <get loadtimes>;" (without quotation marks)
  • menu Scripting - Run Script..., just enter "text <get loadtimes>;"

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Re: How to get rid of the '+' sign next to folders when no subfolders present?

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Ok, thanks! Finally got it...not sure I've learned anything new though?
As I said, I see it scans my hard drives and I get roughly 88 seconds in total.

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Re: How to get rid of the '+' sign next to folders when no subfolders present?

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Show what you got.

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Re: How to get rid of the '+' sign next to folders when no subfolders present?

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Well...I'd rather not. It shows a lot of private info.

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Re: How to get rid of the '+' sign next to folders when no subfolders present?

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At least the bottom part:

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MiniTree: Rows=245, Nodes=246, Expanded=105, Mapped Drives=1, Servers=5
Tree Remember State: Yes (121 stored paths)
Tree Check Subfolders Exist: Yes
Tree Show Localized Names: Yes
Network on Startup: Browse=No, Reconnect=No, CacheServers=Yes
Pane 1: Items=11/11, Pane 2: Items=4/972, Catalog: Items=132
Tagged Items in Database: 869

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