How to stop file browsing creating new folders?

Jim Cornette fc-cornette at insight.rr.com
Mon Jun 20 01:05:25 UTC 2005


Bo Berglund wrote:

>I am coming from WinXP and the Explorer in XP can be set to open new
>folders in the same window (with a back arrow to return).
>On FC4 I tried to navigate the disk with the desktop home icon, which
>brings up an Explorer-like view.
>However, in the configurations I could not find how to stop it from
>creating all these new windows when I walk to a file way down a tree.
>
>Is there a setting to control this, or is there a better file system
>navigator even?
>
>Bo Berglund
>
>  
>

You wll need to go to edit --> Preferences --> behavior and check the 
always open in browser mode, after opening up the first browser, in its 
menus.

I think that this feature rates with turning off updatedb, but it is the 
direction that FC has chosen for defaults.

Jim




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