Fix IE7 Add to Favorites problem - Please vote YES to fix!

Internet Explorer 7 (IE7)
Favorites problem

A new ‘feature’ of IE7 appears to be it’s auto-expansion of every favorite
folder when you click on add-to-favorites.

The problem is I have a highly organized massive amount of folders nested
multiple levels deep and the indentations are quite small. This makes for a
cumbersome visual overload that is quite unwieldy.

I would much prefer that all of my folders remain closed by default and I
can click on each one to expand it and then it’s logical child counterpart as
appropriate and so on. This would make the system much more user friendly
for me as I am wasting a huge amount of time trying to find my way around at
the moment.

Is there an option in IE7 to collapse all folders during the Add to
Favorites process?

If so what is it?

I have found the following settings under Internet Options Advanced but they
did not seem to help. Maybe someone could explain what they do –
Browsing – Close unused folders in History and Favorites
Browsing – Enable personalized favorites menu
Browsing – Enable TP folder view (outside of Internet Explorer)



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From what I have read in here some people have problems with favorites
opening automatically and some don't. My test version operates
normally and I have not been able to reproduce or seen elsewhere this
exact behaviour as yet.

I have not put it on a production machine though and there are only
about 20 or so in the first place. It seems people with huge amounts
of favorites are prone to this problem, maybe there are limits.,
nested folder bugs, I dunno.

I have seen one poor girl whos IE7 attempted (and failed) to open
every single link every time it was started and she had taken to using
a hard re-set to get her PC back, bad install I assume so I got it
back to IE6 for her and blocked IE7 with the MSFT blocker tool, a very
popular download from MSFT at the moment.

As for the settings I have used the tweaks posted here to restore the
menu bar to its proper place and get rid of the pointless (for me)
search bar as like many people I use the clean uncluttered Google as
my homepage. I don't know what the other settings do, not very much
useful as far as I can tell.

I suggest you uninstall it for the time being and go back to IE6 for a
while - let some other mug beta test it for you.



Jonah

 

It's working two different ways on my home network.

Computer 1: I click a favorites folder > it expands and stays expanded.
When I click a different favorites folder, the first one collapses, and the
second one expands. VERY NICE.

Computer 2: I click a favorites folder > it expands and stays expanded.
When I click a different favorites folder, the first one stays expanded, and
the second one expands. VERY ANNOYING.

There must be a setting somewhere! Help...

 

Got my own answer to this through searching... Merry Xmas!

If you go to Tools > Internet Options > Advanced, select Close unused
folders in history and favorites.

Though, now that I re-read this thread, I'm not sure if this is the problem
we're discussing. If not, my bad...

 

Re: putting this capability back into IE7 via a Windows Update: ASAP, I would
add. What can the individuals at MS possibly thinking when they *remove*
basic functionality like this?

 

Not only do I have that problem but when I select Favorites from the Menu Bar
and click on Add to Favorites none of my Favorites or in order....they are
however in order in the Favorites window and when you initially click on
Favorites from the menu bar....only when I click on Add does this
happen....it is very annoying because I have a huge amount of nested
Favorites as well.

Please fix this problem!

 

haha yeh

 

It appears, that IE7 allows to "add a favorite" in a tree, but you should add
to the "favorites center"'s tree and not through the menu.

Read this message:
http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...e24670-e6d6-4ae6-8c5f-797529eaa81b&sloc=en-us

 

Pinning the Favorites Center is not a fix since it eats up space in the
frame. The whole point of tabbed browsing is for quick access and IE6 add to
favorites worked fine with the non-collapsed folder tree. Whoever thought
that expanding the tree when trying to add a bookmark should be fired since
it is penalizing people that organize their bookmarks into folders and have a
lot of bookmarks saved.

I have about 35 main bookmark folders and then each have their own
subfolders with some of those having subfolders. With the difficulties in
adding a bookmark having to scroll through so many folders just to find the
folder I want to add it to, I end up just adding them to the main Favorites
directory then I have to go to my Favorites folder in Windows Explorer and
move them manually. As technology advances, it is supposed to become easier
not take 3 steps backwards reverting to older outdated ideas of bookmark
management. After a year and still no fix means that their probably will
never be one and as my frustration grows more so each day dealing with these
annoyances, I keep looking for alternatives that will mean I will probably be
switching to a different Internet Browser. Microsoft should be trying to
keep people using IE7 and not drive them away with poor decisions, like one
other user suggested, they should release an Internet Explorer TweakUi power
toy that fixes the problem if Microsoft will not add the option in the menus
directly.

 

Explain how you did that. I should have worked if you dragged the folder
from one location to another.

My guess would be that you don't have desktop.ini (hidden) in there now?

HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
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Non collapsing favorites folders. Agggggggghhhhhhhhh
My favorites used to be well organised and productive. Since IE7 they are a
total mess. Do Microsoft really want people to move to Firefox -they have
made a very strong case by adding this "feature" to IE7. The problem has
remained unfixed for far too long - Let's vote with our feet and bail out.

 

The message at the end of this link does not have a fix to the "add to
favorites" exploded tree problem (item 2 in the messages list of described
problems). The developer (developerz) even agrees that the exploded tree is a
frequently mentioned problem, but has no fix.

I do find it curious that MS took the time to respond to that post, but can
not find the time to respond to posts in this group (and similar) where we
are expressing our outrage that MS took a giant leap backward in favorites
management.

ATedK

 

Yes! Why can I not get that looooooong list of favorites to collapse? I
know it can be done -- DH also uses IE7, and does not get this ridiculously
long list (when he adds a favorite, it looks much more like the interface in
IE6, though not identical). Thing is, he doesn't remember changing anything
to get it to behave this way. I spent several HOURS last night trying,
without success to find out how to do this.

I flatly refuse to PAY Microsoft an exhorbitant price to tell me how to fix
their FUBAR over the phone, and their Knowledge Base is too large and/or
complex to find the info I need (not to mention that much of it is far too
technical for us mere mortals to comprehend!).

I'd like to make IE7 work for me, since it's a hassle to keep two browsers
up-to-date with favorites. But if I can't solve this problem of the exploded
tree, and very, very soon, I'm going make Firefox my browser of choice and
only use Microsoft's PITA (you figure it out!) browsers to do updates.

MADinIowa

 

Save your money, because WYSIWYG. The problem(Expanded Favorites Tree when
using Add to Favorites) will not be fixed in IE7, and it is still there in
IE8 as well.

Good luck,

Donald Anadell