Apply folder columns to all subfolders and a backup

bl00keRs said:

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

Exactly. The ShellNoRoam registry keys no longer exists in Windows 10.

You never gave any indication that you used/understand Apply to Folders. You have to help the people trying to help you.

Copy & paste the following code into a PowerShell window. Press <Enter> to execute. This will tell us if you've maxed out on saved views and what, if any, FolderTypes have a customized default view.

Code:

$MRU      = 'HKCU:\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\BagMRU'
$Defaults = 'HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams\Defaults'
$FT       = 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderTypes'

'Local Saved View Count: {0 }' -f ((gp $MRU).Nodeslots).count
If (Test-Path $Defaults) {
   (gi $Defaults).Property |
    Select @{N = 'ID'; E = {$_}},
           @{N = 'Name'; E = {(gp "$FT\$_").CanonicalName}}
} Else { echo "`nNo Customized Templates`n" }

Copy & paste the output into your reply.

I've started with this folder view thing and backup it for over 1 year ago when I got an answer, in this thread, on how to backup folder view settings, and I don't remember if I did apply to folders or what I did, so far it just worked as I want it to work. However, I don't think so because at that point, when this thread has been created, I've already set a lot of folder views and I know that doing "Apply to folders" vanish all settings as I did it once before and everything got back to default, so it's nothing I'm gonna use, never. I was never satisfied with this kind of functionality. Too much already has been done and it's not worth doing that.

I got this after executing that code into PowerShell

Code:

Local Saved View Count: 5000

No Customized Templates

bl00keRs said:

I've started with this folder view thing and backup it for over 1 year ago when I got an answer, in this thread, on how to backup folder view settings, and I don't remember if I did apply to folders or what I did, so far it just worked as I want it to work. However, I don't think so because at that point, when this thread has been created, I've already set a lot of folder views and I know that doing "Apply to folders" vanish all settings as I did it once before and everything got back to default, so it's nothing I'm gonna use, never. I was never satisfied with this kind of functionality. Too much already has been done and it's not worth doing that.

I got this after executing that code into PowerShell

Code:

Local Saved View Count: 5000

No Customized Templates

Well, I hate to break it to you, but 5000 is the maximun number of saved views. Now, very time Explorer saves a view, it has to delete one to make room. Because of the way views are indexed and the deletion algorithm, folders on the Desktop are the first to lose saved views --- the symptom you've already observed.

The fix is to delete all saved views (BagMRU & Bags keys).

That's how I thought it worked.
So, it's not (in any way) possible to increase the number of saved views without losing everything? I guess not 😒 Then, what if I delete BagMRU & Bags keys? I'll lose everything, do I? What if I've got a week of free time or so, and start doing this tedious job from scratch using folder templates as it looks like I haven't used them? Do I still gonna have only 5000 entries to fill?

There is a registry vaIue that doesn't exist by default, but Procmon reveals the that Explorer looks for the value:

BagMRU Size

think you can icrease it to 8000, possibly more. Follow the link for more info.

Thank you sooo much, it worked 😀
I've added the BagMRU Size 10000 to the registry, and this is what I got:

Code:

Local Saved View Count: 5018

No Customized Templates

No need to reset folder settings only put this entry into the registry and voila.