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sheffieldma:
I have a related request. Currently, the nodes in the folder tree are shown with "+" or "-" symbols, which can be clicked on to expand or collapse the subtree. As previous comments pointed out, even folders without subfolders have the +. The only way to see if a folder has subfolders is to click on the + (or click on the folder name). It would be helpful if the + was only shown for the folders that had subfolders. This is the way that Windows Explorer works (my system is Win XP).

Mathias (Author):
It work like that because of performance reason. Else it would have to look in all subfolder and check if they really are empty or not, and that would hurt performance a bit.
I do not think I will change that behavior.

sheffieldma:

--- Quote from: sheffieldma on October 01, 2012, 22:59:24 ---It would be helpful if the + was only shown for the folders that had subfolders.

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I suspect the performance would be good for most users who have only local, and not network disks. Perhaps it could be made an option in the Tweaking category?

Another possibility would be to make it a command, similar to Refresh. The scanning could be limited to a selected folder (and its subfolders).

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