View - details - everything goes away.
 

Greetings,

When I first went to several of my folders lastnight -
I thought someone had hacked into my harddrive and deleted
a bunch of folders.

After almost getting the FBI involved (no exageration -
as there's only a short list of people who would have done
it)by accident today I discovered the files weren't
deleted - it's just that...

Any folder where I had left the view options as either
large icons, small icons(rarely used by me) or list - the
files show.

Any folder where the view options had been left
on 'details' a grey bar appears below the toolbar, and NO
files show.

And...you can still toggle back and forth - in other
words, select view - large icons - all the files show.

Select view - details - and all the files disappear.

Anyplace in the windows 98 operating system where there
this can be toggled so 'details' works again?

I want to be able to see when the last time any of my
many files were accessed...

Thanks!
Joe

View - details - everything goes away.
 

Click in the blank right-hand pane.
Press the Ctrl key and the + key
(only the + key on the numeric keypad)

Q179875 Windows Explorer Does Not Display Item's Contents in Right
Pane
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=179875

....Alan

--
Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
http://dts-l.org/index.html


In microsoft.public.win98.display.general, "Joe Needs Help"
wrote:


Select view - details - and all the files disappear.

Alan, that was awsome!!! Woohoo!
 

Alan,

One of the things I've noticed on this forum is not a
lot of feedback about mission accomplished.

That immediately fixed the problem - and for ovbious
reasons is something I never would have just stumbled upon
by myself - it took somebody who already knew how to fix
the problem - or knows how to find a fix for the problem.

Everything appeared one column at a time - and moved
sideways to make room for the next column.

Great job, many thanks for a quick fix that worked.

Be great!
Joe

Anyhow, Alan, thank you -
-----Original Message-----
Click in the blank right-hand pane.
Press the Ctrl key and the + key
(only the + key on the numeric keypad)

Q179875 Windows Explorer Does Not Display Item's Contents
in Right
Pane
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=179875

....Alan

--
Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
http://dts-l.org/index.html


In microsoft.public.win98.display.general, "Joe Needs
Help"
wrote:


Select view - details - and all the files disappear.


.

Alan, that was awsome!!! Woohoo!
 

Hi Joe,

Thanks for the feedback (rare, as you say).

You can use CTRL+ at any time. It re-orders the columns to fit the
data, as you probably noticed. It just happens to be a fix for your
problem as well.

....Alan

--
Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
http://dts-l.org/index.html


In microsoft.public.win98.display.general, "Joe Needs Help"
wrote:

Alan,

One of the things I've noticed on this forum is not a
lot of feedback about mission accomplished.

That immediately fixed the problem - and for ovbious
reasons is something I never would have just stumbled upon
by myself - it took somebody who already knew how to fix
the problem - or knows how to find a fix for the problem.

Everything appeared one column at a time - and moved
sideways to make room for the next column.

Great job, many thanks for a quick fix that worked.

Be great!
Joe

Anyhow, Alan, thank you -
-----Original Message-----
Click in the blank right-hand pane.
Press the Ctrl key and the + key
(only the + key on the numeric keypad)

Q179875 Windows Explorer Does Not Display Item's Contents
in Right
Pane
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=179875

....Alan

--
Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
http://dts-l.org/index.html


In microsoft.public.win98.display.general, "Joe Needs
Help"
wrote:


Select view - details - and all the files disappear.


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