When opening a directory that is already opened on your current tab, the application should not try to open it again

What’s the Problem?

When opening a directory that is already opened on your current tab, the application should not try to open it again

Solution/Idea

When the current tab shows for example the Documents folder from the Favorites section, and you are trying to open the same path on the current tab, but now by clicking on the Documents tab from another section, for example Libraries, the tab refreshes and is trying to open the path without any need as it’s already opened.

So what I am proposing is that the application will check if the newly opened directory is the same as the one that is currently opened in the current tab (on the default settings it’s opening the directory in the same tab), and if it does. don’t do anything 😃

Alternatives

Not relevant…?

Priorities

Capability	Priority
This proposal will allow end users to not have flashy objects reloaded on the screen when not needed	Could

Files Version

2.0.13.0

Windows Version

Windows 10 21H1 19043.1266

Additional comment

No response

[gave92]

Thanks a lot for helping us understand the issue, I’m gonna close this one as the behavior is “correct”, it reloads as library and favorite sidebar items point to two different things. We’ll investigate on why explorer & files show different contents for the documents library.

[Mikey1993]

@gave92 ,

Well the intended outcome is to show the same as Explorer, that for the Documents Library is to show the items of the two folders contained in the library grouped by folder:

For some reason my Documents library from the Explorer only showing files from C:\Users\XXX\Documents, and I don’t remember changing anything from my side on the Explorer settings…

Coming back to issue of “application should not try to open again a folder which is already open in the current tab” do you see this happening in any other case (other than for Libraries vs Favorites)?

I don’t think I can replicate this anywhere else, as I can’t pin the same directory two times anywhere.

Looks like if I pin a directory to Favorites, it knows not to open it again when clicking on it in the Favorites sidebar without reloading it, so this issue seems to be specifically tied to the case of Libraries vs Favorites 😃