Apply folder columns to all subfolders and a backup

I'd like to have my music albums and movies in folders with 8-10 columns for every folder, like 500 folders with sub-sub-sub folders if you know what I mean. I need to apply manually these 8-10 columns for each folder I want to have it the way I want, and then if something happens like reinstall or format, then every setting resets

Is there any way to apply these 8-10 columns for a folder, and then even apply these settings to all sub-folders of this folder and I even wonder if there's a registry path which let me backup all my folder columns settings? It's not only for these type of files I want to take the backup of, but across whole Windows would be nice to have a copy so I don't need to apply anything all the time shit happens and everything resets... PITA. Thank you in advance.

Does this procedure apply only for this folder or all folders of this type? I don't wanna change anything outside this folder. I remember I've tried this before and it changed all my columns everywhere in ALL folders and I've been pissed of as everything was reset.

This is for all folders of this type, "Music" in your case.

There should be File Explorer alternative apps doing what you ask for but I cannot help.
Other users or a web search may help...

Backup Folder View Settings

Can you be more specific about the situation. You seem to be saying that you want several different layouts all using the Music folder template but in different directories. Is that correct? Or is it just one layout for Music & another for video? Is there a reason you're not using the Videos template for videos? Is the folder structure static or would you want to be constantly creating new folders?

Thank you for the backup solution. I guess it's not possible to apply XYZ columns in a folder, and copy these settings only to sub folders of this folder.

bl00keRs said:

Thank you for the backup solution. I guess it's not possible to apply XYZ columns in a folder, and copy these settings only to sub folders of this folder.

Nope! Not really, there's a bit of work involved...

You have to apply your settings to all five of these folder types...



... and that's just the folders, you also have to apply your settings to the child folders with items in them, for each folder type,

then, if you add or create new media, AFTD, (Automatic Folder Type Discovery), screws up the settings for new items!

There's also a few more folders you have to set manually as well; Control Panel, Recycle Bin, This PC, just to name a few!

It's a pain!!!

I will set these columns just as I want, take a backup of it all and hope for that the backup itself is properly done and isworking.

I'm back with a question. Is there a size limit of view settings or the backup registry files of them? I set almost every folder to a view which I want and created a scheduled task for doing a backup of view settings registry files 2 times in a week to not losing anything as it cost me hell a lot of time to set it up but since some time ago I've discovered that the backup registry files aren't getting bigger and bigger with the time, and sometimes they're even less than before, though I set more and more folders to view settings all the time? The size of backup files is together at 21,2MB now, and it looks like they can't get bigger? It's the same size as they were at the beginning of this year, then someday when checked in March or April these files have decreased to 20MB and today they're at 21,2MB, again. In addition to it, folders on Desktop or in the Library won't save view settings and reset to default almost every time I close the window and re-open it. It's not the case with folders in any other place/partition.

This is the code which I'm using for backup:

Code:

@echo off > NUL
echo Backup folder view settings to the file...
SET DESTFOLDER=D:\Systemet\Inst„llningar\Mappvy\Mappvy backup
mkdir "%DESTFOLDER%"  > NUL 2> NUL
REG EXPORT HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams "%DESTFOLDER%\STREAMS.reg" /y > NUL 2> NUL
REG EXPORT HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\BagMRU "%DESTFOLDER%\Shell-BagMRU.reg" /y > NUL 2> NUL
REG EXPORT HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags "%DESTFOLDER%\Shell-Bags.reg" /y > NUL 2> NUL
REG EXPORT HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\Bags "%DESTFOLDER%\ShellNoRoam-Bags.reg" /y > NUL 2> NUL
REG EXPORT HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\BagMRU "%DESTFOLDER%\ShellNoRoam-BagMRU.reg" /y > NUL 2> NUL
REG EXPORT "HKCU\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\BagMRU" "%DESTFOLDER%\Classes-BagMRU.reg" /y > NUL 2> NUL
REG EXPORT "HKCU\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags" "%DESTFOLDER%\Classes-Bags.reg" /y > NUL 2> NUL

And these registry files are actually backed up:

Code:

REG EXPORT HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams "%DESTFOLDER%\STREAMS.reg" /y > NUL 2> NUL
REG EXPORT HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\BagMRU "%DESTFOLDER%\Shell-BagMRU.reg" /y > NUL 2> NUL
REG EXPORT HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags "%DESTFOLDER%\Shell-Bags.reg" /y > NUL 2> NUL
REG EXPORT "HKCU\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\BagMRU" "%DESTFOLDER%\Classes-BagMRU.reg" /y > NUL 2> NUL
REG EXPORT "HKCU\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags" "%DESTFOLDER%\Classes-Bags.reg" /y > NUL 2> NUL

These two registry entries aren't in the backup folder. I guess they're for an older operating system as 8/7/XP.

Code:

REG EXPORT HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\Bags "%DESTFOLDER%\ShellNoRoam-Bags.reg" /y > NUL 2> NUL
REG EXPORT HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\BagMRU "%DESTFOLDER%\ShellNoRoam-BagMRU.reg" /y > NUL 2> NUL