Navigating through directories with only 1 folder auto opens child folder

[byamagata]

Description of the new feature / enhancement

When adding paths to the PATH variable, when you navigate using the explorer, it will auto open directories that only contain a single directory inside of them. Thus making it easier to find what you are looking for quicker.

VSCode does something similar, when opening a folder with only 1 other folder inside of it, it will concat the nested folders names together and auto open all the inner folders until it opens a directory that has something other than just 1 other folder.

It would be nice to have a tool that does this for the File Explorer. Maybe not as default behavior, but as something that you can toggle on so that we can skip the middle folders and get straight to the content we were looking for.

Scenario when this would be used?

When navigating through different program paths in Program Files or AppData, many companies have folder structures where there are several directories that only contain a single folder between the top level folder and where the actual files are located. It takes several seconds waiting for the UI to refresh and then click on the next folder. This compounds when there are some that have 4 or 5 single folder directories before finally showing the actual files. This could save valuable time when navigating around.

Supporting information

No response

[crutkas]

neat idea. would really need to try how VS Code does this, namely around what if you actually want to be in that directory that only contains a child folder

[Aaron-Junker]

I don't really see a way to do this. It could work when we would programm a whole new shell. But this would be surely out of scope.

@byamagata I recommend you to suggest this in the Feedback Hub.

[htcfreek]

I think this might be an improvement for file search plugin too.

[byamagata]

@Aaron-Junker is there no way to mimic how VSCode does it? It even seems to be built into some parts of the file explorer modals (eg: adding to path variable when using the browse option)

I could add it there as well.

[Aaron-Junker]

Hi. Sorry for my late reply.

It even seems to be built into some parts of the file explorer modals (eg: adding to path variable when using the browse option)

I was not able to replicate this. For me the environment variables directory picker works exactly the sa,e-

I could add it there as well.

I don't think you can modify explorer to skip directories with only one directory in it. But I don't know everything.