Everything forcing navigation panel expanding on external hard drives

[Jeqk]

When I add exFAT External Hard drive directly in Everything 1.5 or as a folder in Everything 1.4 everytime I open up a folder on that external hard drive from Everything the navigation panel on the left side of File Explorer in my Windows 10 File Explorer expands to the folder.



I have disabled the expanding from folder settings. So this does not happen when I go from File Explorer directly to my external hard drive, also this does not happen with File Explorer search. Also won't happen with my internal NTFS drives with Everything.

I have also tried disabling "My PC" completely from navigation panel and guess what.. STILL EXPANDS. It shows "My PC" just for that one search and expands it to the folder despite it being disabled. Then when I close that file explorer window and open file explorer without Everything it is not seen. Everything literally just forces it open just for searches in external hard drive.

Very weird indeed. Help is needed. I am currently as a temporary solution using Winaero Tweaker to Hide Drive "G:\" and then adding G:\ in Navigation Panel - Custom items. With these Winaero Tweaks sadly I cannot see G: in "My PC" but I can still access it via Everything or via Navigation Panel and now it won't expand no more with Everything. Still, I gotta get it back. I am about to burst in frustration

[void]

Please try adjusting your open folder command in Everything:

• In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the Context menu tab on the left.
• Select Open (Folders)
• Change the command to:
• $exec("%WINDIR%\Explorer.exe" "%1")
• Click OK.

There's not much Everything can do here, Everything simply tells Explorer to open the folder by full path and filename.

Maybe there's an explorer command line option to disable the expanding treeview?

[Jeqk]

Didn't work, got any more commands to try?

Weird how nothing seems to work. I have tried disabling "My PC" in navigation panel everywhere I can think of and any form of expanding folders everywhere but nothing seems to work. Something forces it on...

[void]

Does the same issue occur if you create a shortcut on your Desktop to a folder?

Does the same issue occur if you create a shortcut on your Desktop to a Windows Explorer with a parameter specifying a folder?
For example:
"C:\Windows\Explorer.exe" "G:"



Please make sure Everything is not running as administrator:

• In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the General tab on the left.
• Check Store settings and data in %APPDATA%\Everything.
• Uncheck Run as administrator.
• Check Everything Service. (Please make sure this is tick-checked and not square-checked)
• Click OK.
• Exit Everything (right click the Everything tray icon and click Exit).
• Restart Everything.

[Jeqk]

It does happen with that shortcut! So it's likely a problem outside of Everything right?

The 2nd part didnt work

[Jeqk]

And btw just to clarify, the shortcut thing only makes the navigation panel expand when it's to my external hard drive... shortcuts to my NTFS drives C, D and E don't expand the navigation panel but to G do.

It's definitely outside of Everything then. Dammit. Probably some sort of registry mismatch or something.

[void]

Yes, it's outside of Everything's control.

Unless there's a command line option for Explorer to disable the treeview expansion?

[Jeqk]

Yes, it's outside of Everything's control.

Unless there's a command line option for Explorer to disable the treeview expansion?

Only option that I know of regards to expanding treeview is if you click the navigation panel it says "Expand to current folder". If I enable it, then it expands everytime you open folder, no matter what way so even without shortcuts. So obviously I have it disabled, other than that I have absolutely no idea of other commands or fixes.

[Jeqk]

Yes, it's outside of Everything's control.

Unless there's a command line option for Explorer to disable the treeview expansion?

Hey!

Shortcuts like your example:
C:\Windows\Explorer.exe" "G:"

Do expand the external hard drive in navigation panel BUT

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Shortcuts like:

"G:\"

Won't expand.

So is there anyway to make Everything to work and open the G:\ folders with that command

[NotNull]

Try it with:

Open (folders) = $exec("%1")

(untested)

[Jeqk]

Try it with:

Open (folders) = $exec("%1")

(untested)

Sadly no

[NotNull]

<curse word>

Allright, there are 2 ways to open a folder in Explorer (the file manager).
The first one being running explorer(thye file manager) with the folder as parameter, which you already tried;
the second one was letting explorer (the shell) open said folder. That is what we just tried and didn't work either.

Just to make sure:
when you right-click in an empty part of the left pane, is Expand to current folder indeed unchecked?

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Other than that: no further ideas at the moment.

[Jeqk]

<curse word>

Allright, there are 2 ways to open a folder in Explorer (the file manager).
The first one being running explorer(thye file manager) with the folder as parameter, which you already tried;
the second one was letting explorer (the shell) open said folder. That is what we just tried and didn't work either.

Just to make sure:
when you right-click in an empty part of the left pane, is Expand to current folder indeed unchecked?
2023-01-03 00_08_09-Desktop.png

Other than that: no further ideas at the moment.

It is. When I check it it always expands the folder even when going from File Explorer directly to External Hard Drive. Unchecking it fixes that but won't fix expansion in Everything searches.

NTFS hard drives won't expand on File Explorer even with Everything searches it's just the external.

[poweroftiger3]

I really craved to find the way same as you, but I couldn't.

so I just added all drives to QuickAccess menu and disabled "Show this PC"
and it doesn't expand at all when I open a folder on external drives by everything.

I think that's the best way what can we do now!

If you try this way too, it would be better to clean your menu
https://www.majorgeeks.com/content/page/how_to_stop_file_explorer_from_showing_external_drives_twice.html