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Library Sorting

I've been annoyed by this for a long time but am just now researching it.

In reference to the Libraries - Documents, Videos, Music, et cetera ...
When I set the Sort By in one library the other libraries sort the same way.
And it's not always apparent right away - it may be the next time I'm looking at files that the sort order of ALL libraries has changed to the setting that I made last.

And additionally - it seems that some libraries are immune from this.
Music, Pictures, Videos seem to be immune.

I could live with this if Documents was also immune but when I set the sort order of my Downloads Library (I made a downloads library) that eventually affects the sort order of the Documents Library. Then when I change the Documents Sort By back to name the Sort By in Downloads changes to name as well.

You guys noticed this?
Any help?

Thanks a lot!

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Merete

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dgrafx

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Thanks for replying
Let me say the following

I thought I was sorting folder vs sorting library - but what I did was expand the library by clicking the arrow next to it then clicking the folder under it. But I guess that was still the library and not really the folder.
But now I went to the folder itself navigating through the drives d:\Users\folder ya know and it seems to work!

Let me give it a bit to make sure it doesn't come back to bite me ...

Thanks

Merete

Sounds right, I dont use the libraries as it adds loading time, what I did is simply create a new folder in My Documents for My Videos My Music and My Pictures created a shortcut and dragged them to the desktop
When I open a library folder

I dont really see the sense in adding folders to libraries.

dgrafx

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well - windows is trying to serve them all the time so I go with the flow ...
and i only have 1 folder per library unless as in the case of videos i have folders from different drives an so the video library just shows them all to me as if they were all in the same folder.
i like it
but anyway - thanks for your help.