[quote="leo"]Folder Formats: Quick Guide explains how to always have the same display mode in all folders.
You can have that drop-down back, but if you use it it will turn content type formats back on, which will (depending on other settings) put you back to having the display mode automatically switch to thumbnails, which is not what you want.
Instead, it might be better to create buttons or a menu which switch to specific folder formats, or which change the display mode, or whatever you want. We can help you set that up, if you tell us what you want in it. (If you just want a quick way to switch in and out of thumbnails mode, that's already there on the default toolbar.)[/quote]
Thanks for the Guide ! i will read it. yes, i know about the already button to switch details / thumbs... but it's annoying to use.
now the automatic switch is disabled, but of course, when i click on the thumbs button it's not working anymore.
my main need in fact is two :
- i just want to have the album view with albums thumbs to work when i'm going in my mp3 folder.
the structure is like this for example
y:\Mp3\Jazz\name of the artist\name of the album\track01.mp3
would like to have the albums view only when i'm going to the "name of the album folder".
unfortunatly, if i do this, when i'm going in the track01.mp3 folder , the thumbs of the mp3 are displayed as well.
and of course, having on everything else on my computer to stay in details format, and still having the possibility to switch to thumbs view via the quick button in case i want to watch some pictures etc ...
not sure if it's possible.
another example, but i think i start to understand how to do it :
having some columns working only on a specific folder :
like my video folder, having resolution information, bitrate, frame per seconds, etc ...
and when i'm going out from my video folder, everything is back to normal with size of the file, date etc ...
but i must investigate a bit because i never really played with all these in DO. always used it in a very simple way.
(suffering from headache doesn't help to search and find the solution to all this 
).
thanks for the help !