This particularly applies (for me) when trying to view the Internet Explorer cache which creates numerous sub-folders.
Ideally there would be an option to display (contents of) sub-folders when viewing a folder.
I know you can do a find but is there not an easier way?
In the default menus, View -> Flat View
Thank you for the response but this doesn't work as needed.
Firstly, I can only select Flat View when the Drive is selected and not the folder "Temporary Internet Files" - the option is greyed out. Presumably because "Temporary Internet Files" is not visible in the folder list. Dol you know how to correct this? Perhaps that might help.
Secondly, (I can get to the hidden folder by selecting the drive), as soon as I select Images as the Content Type it becomes unmanageable.
What is really needed is to be able to display all the contents of the folder and sub-folders in one Lister - as if the content was in one folder.
You are viewing the "virtual" view of the IE cache which Windows provides. Opus delegates handling of such folders to Windows Explorer at the moment, so in them features like Flat View don't work.
You can make it work, though: You have to tell Opus that you want to display the real directory contents for the IE cache folder, instead of the virtual view.
To do that, go to Settings -> Preferences / Folders / Virtual Folders and either a) select Treat all virtual folders as real or b) select the option below it and drag the IE cache folder into the list of exclusions.
Thank you for the suggestion but I'm not sure why you say the IE Cache is a virtual view/folder. It doesn't display in the folder list (on the left, but when I select the drive, it displays in the view with the icon faded out and the name in red. If I double click on Temporary Internet Files the view changes to display the list of sub-folders and again the Content.IE icon is faded and the name (text) is red.
I did as you suggest and selected to treat all virtual folders as real but it made no difference to the behaviour I described previously.
What am I missing?
Can you post a screenshot showing what you see?
(Just attach it as an image to the post.)
Thank you so much for trying to help.
I have attached an image with several screen captures. Do let me know if you need anything else or if I can help in any way.
It looks like FlatView is working fine. What's actually the problem?
If the only problem is it not being displayed in the tree, that's probably because you have hidden folders turned off in the tree. (Prefs / Listers / Folder Tree)
Flat view is not working fine becuase you can't view the images, as images.
Leo, your suggestion fixed the problem of Temporary Internet Files not showing up on the folder list. Thank you.
However, the problem remains. You can view all files (in a folder tree) in Flat View, but not images as images.
Switching the Content Type to Images is forcing the Lister to go out of Flat View. Just go into Thumbnails mode manually if you want to see the flat view contents as thumbnails.
Since flatview is a special Opus mode, you can't display a folder in flatview if it is a system namespace or a 'virtual folder', which by default is shown by the OS (or external application) and not by Opus. So it sounds like you haven't set the virtual folder preference correctly. Possibly you are attempting to access the wrong temporary internet folders folder (t6ehera re several of them).
In the Opus Lister type the alias /internetcache to find the real true path used by the system. Then add this to the folders to be treated as real in Opus preferences. Normally for window 7 this is something like C:\Users<user>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files
Or turn on the setting to treat ALL virtual folders as real until you work out the issue.
And if you wish go to Preferences - folder tree and turn on the display of hidden folders.
Once you've done this you could use a using the following commands to quickly access the folder
such as
Go PATH="/internetcache"
Set FLATVIEW=MixedNoFolders
Set SORTBY=date SORTREVERSE=On
Or even more adventurous one to select only larger type movie/flash files etc.
Go PATH="/internetcache"
Set FLATVIEW=MixedNoFolders
Select "*.(mov|avi|swf)" PATTERN HIDEUNSEL
Select NONE DESELECT
Set SORTBY=date SORTREVERSE=On
Flat-View simply lets you see the sub-folders as you had asked... Given the subject line, and the initial description of what you were asking for - I don't think it was very clear that you even wanted to view the contents as "images", by which I think we all now presume you to mean "thumbnails" view-mode. For what you now seem to want to do - you can combine what both Jon and Greg have suggested like so:
Go PATH="/internetcache"
Set FLATVIEW=MixedNoFolders
Set SORTBY=date SORTREVERSE=On
Set VIEW=Thumbnails
...and I think that should get you what you seem to want? Of course - you'll still need to have the preferences option set to display this folder as a "real" folder...
Many thanks all 
