Comments on: Vista Bug – Incredible Disappearing Files

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New Gadgets | Vista Bug - Incredible Disappearing Files — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:46:20 +0000

[...] Original post by I.M. Testy [...]

By: testingmentor

testingmentor — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:14:03 +0000

Hi Nick,

I feel your pain. I like to also keep my explorer windows small, and also prefer list view which is how I came across this defect. (This is a defect in list view functionality.)

You must have some pretty long descriptive file/folder names not to fit in a 4″ wide window.

I didn’t intend to trivialize this problem. It is a defect, but not many customers (other than you and I) have reported this problem, and fortunately it does not require jumping through a bunch of hoops to recover.

I am glad they are planning to address it in Windows 7. Until then, our F5 keys will be getting a pretty good workout.

Friday, September 14, 2007 11:08 AM by I.M.Testy

By: testingmentor

testingmentor — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:13:51 +0000

this bug is not just a nuisnance; It is a royal pain !

I shrink all my explorer windows to 300 x 300. And I use LIST view. This keeps my desktop compact. BUT, it means that ALL folders have file names that exceed the window width. Thus, if I click into a subfolder, and then go back up one level, my files disappear from view. I then have to repat View -> list.

Of note, SMALL ICONS don’t do this, but they are sorted horizontally (nuts…)

anyway

Nick

Tuesday, September 11, 2007 8:13 PM by aoz

By: testingmentor

testingmentor — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:13:42 +0000

So did you send a bug to the Windows team ?

John

Friday, August 31, 2007 12:56 AM by JohnGuin
# re: Vista Rant #2 – Incredible disappearing files
Hi John,

No, I didn’t send a bug to the Windows team, but someone else did and it appears they are looking at it for Windows 7.

This is a bug in list view; and it is also a classic boundary bug. Once the label box length for the filename (the box around the file name that you can see when you right click a file to rename) exceeds the width of the list pane by 1 pixel the list view window repaints itself so the left side of longest filename is aligned with the right side of the list pane.

Tuesday, September 04, 2007 11:58 AM by I.M.Testy