Auto-populating folders stop becoming auto-populated for no apparent reason

Just what it says. I make an autopopulating folder, use it a few times, come back later and it's no longer auto-populating and I have t to re-link it. I keep my projects on a network drive if that means anything.
PaulG.
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I used to use autopopulating folders when I first started using projects.  Then I discovered that it is so much easier to manipulate things inside Project Explorer when using virtual folders.  If I want to move a file, it's just drag n drop.  If I want to rename a virtual folder, no problemo.  If I want to shuffle virtual folder hierarchies around, not an issue.  I can do these things with autopop folders also, but it is so cumbersome that I end up spending too much time focusing on how to move things around and it distracts me from doing the actual coding.  The interface should not get in the way of your coding, and with autopop, it surely does (for me).
The tradeoff is that it is difficult to look at in Widnows Explorer.  But really it's like viewing the file structure of your hard drive directly, since folders don't really exist on your hard drive anyways.
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