AKICILJ: A few unrelated queries
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carbonel1. On Windows 7, in the Windows Explorer (not to be confused with Internet Explorer), I have a bunch of folders in the Favorites section. This, as it says, gives quick access to the most-used folders. A couple of days ago, the version of my Downloads folder in the Favorites section started acting as if the only contents of said folder were music: it displays Name, Track #, Title, Album, etc. -- but not file size, date of file, or the other things I actually want to see. There are some MP3 files in this folder, but mostly it's other stuff.
The "actual" folder (c:\users\[realname]\downloads) is displaying the files properly. I tried the obvious step of deleting the Downloads folder from my Favorites, then adding it back in again. This failed to fix the problem. It was fine until just a few days ago, but I have no idea what I did to change it, and Google is failing me. Any idea how to get it back?
2. There is some university that every year does a reality check for faculty: the new students have never encountered a world without cell phones or the Internet or whatever changed about 18 years ago. I think it's an annual list. Where can I find this?
3. There is an SF (or fantasy, depending on how you define such things) story that claims that any group of people falls silent at 20 after the hour. The narrator theorizes that people are listening for something, and the final line of the story (without major spoilers) has the listeners being rewarded. I believe I read this in an SF anthology, but I can't remember which one. I'll post to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
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The "actual" folder (c:\users\[realname]\downloads) is displaying the files properly. I tried the obvious step of deleting the Downloads folder from my Favorites, then adding it back in again. This failed to fix the problem. It was fine until just a few days ago, but I have no idea what I did to change it, and Google is failing me. Any idea how to get it back?
2. There is some university that every year does a reality check for faculty: the new students have never encountered a world without cell phones or the Internet or whatever changed about 18 years ago. I think it's an annual list. Where can I find this?
3. There is an SF (or fantasy, depending on how you define such things) story that claims that any group of people falls silent at 20 after the hour. The narrator theorizes that people are listening for something, and the final line of the story (without major spoilers) has the listeners being rewarded. I believe I read this in an SF anthology, but I can't remember which one. I'll post to
whatwasthatbook if no one has it handy, but I suspect this is one of the queries that someone reading this may know offhand.
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Date: 2014-04-23 05:54 pm (UTC)May I presume that Favorites/Downloads is showing you the "Details" view? So that just above the first file in the Downloads folder, you see the words "Name," "Track #," and so forth?
Right-click on one of those words. A light gray menu pops up. It's a list of some file properties. There are checkboxes beside some of these. Others, such as "Date modified" or "Size" are not (if I am guessing correctly) checked. Check the ones you want and see if your situation improves. Note that at the bottom of this gray menu is "More..." Explore that too. It opens the "Choose Details" menu.
If this doesn't work permanently, i.e. if the details you want do not show up the next time you want to look at the Favorites/Downloads folder, I don't know what else to try.
Another way to get to the "Choose Details" menu: A toolbar near the top of your window-frame may read "File Edit View Tools Help." Select "View," then select "Choose details..."
Knowing "choose details" is the Microsoft jargon for this, you can seek further wisdom from helpfiles or googling Windows 7 chatter.
Hope this helps.
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Date: 2014-04-23 06:18 pm (UTC)Thank you -- that fixed the problem at least for now. I hope it'll stay fixed permanently. If not, I'll add it to the list. For some reason, Windows Explorer also sometimes loses the file extension on known file types. I know how to fix that one, but it's an occasional pain.
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Date: 2014-04-23 05:58 pm (UTC)Refers to a 1948 book on superstitions. Not helpful in identifying an SF story about this, but may indicate that the idea does not originate in an SF story.
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Date: 2014-04-23 06:21 pm (UTC)SPOILER ALERT!
SPOILER ALERT!
SPOILER ALERT!
SPOILER ALERT!
The idea of the story is that people have been, without knowing it, waiting for the voice of some deity. And the last line of the story has a voice coming from nowhere (at 20 minutes after the hour, naturally), saying something like, "And now, my good children, I have come home."
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Date: 2014-04-27 01:41 am (UTC)http://www.beloit.edu/mindset/
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