A few months ago I already posted that since Win 10 there're some entries in folder-tree that shouldn't be there. Now I bought a new NAS and got its mediaserver-entry in tree, too, and would like to know more about it.
In pic you see first the "Diskstation" and on the right the properties of it. What's confusing: I don't know why it's there (it's nowhere else, also not in Explorer and I also can't find it in network etc.). But I like it, because of the features like the expanded playlists (all indexed songs will be shown depending on playlist-selection, cool!) and I would like to know where it come from and how to inlcude it into a Go-command.
2: You also see "Documents" and "Downloads" below "Diskstation" - "Downloads" was always there since fresh install. A few days ago I accidantely pinned "Documents" via DO and now it's also in the tree (unpinning in DO or Explorer doesn't remove it). BTW in Explorer I have pinned more folders so I can use them in newer file-dialogues.
In DO's config there's nothing enabled showing these folders in tree.
Is the screenshot from 11.17 (or 11.17.1 if using betas)?
The documents and downloads folders should not appear in that part of the tree if you're on the latest version and the folders were defined in the registry in the normal* way. (*At least as we understand it. Maybe we have missed a detail.)
If you are not on the latest version, please update and check if any of the three folders are still there.
If you are already on the latest version, let me know and I'll get back to you with some registry settings to check, or maybe a test program to run, so we can work out where things are going wrong.
The entry is actual with latest DO beta and it shows the NAS' mediaserver with its indexed folders/files only (you don't see the network shares here). I wonder where this entry come from and how to reproduce it (there's no special software installed and I can't find it in Explorer).
I think I've found where it's coming from: DLNA servers seen by your PC will be added there automatically.
Explorer may show them under Network instead. (But at least in Windows 8.1, it also showed them under This PC / My Computer, based on the screenshots here.)
Ok, didn't activate "Explorer > Show all folders", which hides the DiskStation and in DO it's the option "Virtual folders". Sorry finding out that late.
I think that explains Downloads. When building the folder tree, Opus gets the list of folders from the Windows shell, which in Win8.1 and above includes all the extra folders at the This PC level. On Win8.1 and above, Opus filters out anything at the This PC level that does not point to a drive root, bur your Downloads folder points to a drive root so it isn't filtered out.
I still can't explain the Documents folder. If you right-click it in the tree and open Properties, what do the General and Location tabs show?
Hm, I don't understand showing "Downloads" only. In Explorer under "This PC" per default there're the 6 userfolders (if not deactivated via registry). So why always only "Downloads" appears on all my machines (except the documents-folder on one PC sinc e a few days)? Because it's always assigned to a root folder?
The properties of the "documents"-folder are the one from the regular user-folder where you also can change its path. It shows to "E:\Data" and path to "E:\Data\Documents".
I've found what's happening now. Apologies for not finding it before; I was looking at some related code that wasn't actually what the folder tree uses.
At the moment, the tree's This PC branch only filters out folders which are below the profile folder. We'll improve this, and I'll see if we can do something about the root-drive thing as well (although that may be more complicated, since it really is a drive root).
No problem. Isn't it possible to disable these folders by their ID/assignment independend from their path? In Win 8 for example it was possible to hide them in Explorer removing some reg-entries.
I still don't understand why downloads and documents are shown... I have other userfolders assigned to same location like documents (in \Data...) and some are unchanged (in userprofile).
