Finder & External Drive

I have a 120GB Western Digital External drive that I use almost daily that works just fine but whenever I open the Finder window to access the drive it opens to a folder that I use often. Not everyday but often. This gets a bit annoying because it not only opens with this folder but it also opens several folders deep which means I have to collapse the folders before I get to the folder I really want to access.
My question is, how do I default how the drive opens so that all the folders are collapsed?

Don't know what else to suggest. The problem is with your external drive, either the file structure or the drive itself. How are you formatting exFAT? If using your Mac, try formatting using a PC.

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