Such illogical and weird folders behavior includes the the view or type set on a folder been reverted and changed back to last settings even after been customized by user. The ‘forgotten’ and lost folder views and types settings problem is likely to be caused by abnormal behavior of Windows on folders customization. Instead, the view and/or type of folders revert back to previous settings and configurations when the window is re-opened.
However, there is reported problems that Windows sometimes simply does not want to remember, save and store the changes to folder types and folder views after users customize them. Hardly anybody has so many nested folders of more than 5000. Theoretically, amount of 5000 should be more than enough for most Windows users. The upper limit of 5000 has remained through Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10. By default, Windows is configured to have cache memory storage space with size of 5000 folders to store the folder settings, a value for the ‘Bag’ that has also been increased in Windows XP SP2 compared to just 400 in Windows XP SP1 or earlier. All customizations and changes that has been done on folders types and folders views are saved and remembered by Windows OS in system registry.