[David Preston]

I had the same issue just over a year ago and I contacted sony help and this is what they sent me. It resolved my issue
Here is their response. I had no idea at the time of what I did for sony vegas to not show folders, and all I had to do was reset the preferences.

Thank you for contacting Sony Creative Software. Try resetting the software preferences:

To reset all preferences, settings and window placement back to their original state, close the program. Then hold down the Ctrl & Shift keys when you start it again. When the program starts to load, you will see a window that asks: Do you want to reset all preferences to default values? To fully reset all defaults, make sure that ‘Delete all cached application data’ is checked. Then choose Yes.

David

[David Preston]

But I like to view the video files and decide whether I want to delete any before I put them in the timeline. It helps cleaning up all the video files that I dont want.

[David Preston]

Just thought I would submit and share the solutions to my thread. I had tried to reload the program but that didnt fix the issues I had.
The solution was to reset the preferences, settings and window placement back to their original state. To do this you have to close the program. Then hold down the Ctrl & Shift keys when you start it again. When the program starts to load, you will see a window that asks: Do you want to reset all preferences to default values? To fully reset all defaults, make sure that ‘Delete all cached application data’ is checked. Then choose Yes.
To turn on the video preview check the 7th icon in the explorer window, next to the one saying cd info. Its the box with the arrow. Select this and this shows the video

[David Preston]

sorry for the late reply. Windows is perfect, and every other program. Its just vegas that I cant open up the videos in the folders.

[David Preston]

Bob
Maybe I am missing something but vegas still wont let me either open them up by going file-import-media, or I cant even from here drag and drop them into the project. The only way still is to right click and
I could double click on the folder up until a couple of weeks ago and it just stopped working; I dont know what went wrong? By not being able to open the movie file folder in vegas I cant view a preview of the file at all in the preview window which is a bit of a pain.