Ubuntu – How to expand all folders while in the list view

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I have a music folder that contains about 15 other folders, each only a single level deep. Is there any way, via keyboard or other, to open the music folder in list view and expand all of the contained folders as well? I know about using * to open a nested folder, but that only opens the immediate children of of the selected folder.

Here's the directory structure:

Music
   Billy Joel
     Storm Front
         Shameless
         She's Got a Way
     Glass Houses
         For the Longest Time
   Coldplay
     Parachutes
         Yellow
     X&Y
         Fix You

What I want to be able to do is open Nautilus to the Music folder, then click or type something to expand all the folders to display their contents as above. Right now, when I go into Music, all I see is:

Music
   Billy Joel
   Coldplay

Best Answer

There is an upstream bug about this, but unfortunately it's open since 2003 and probably won't receive a fix in the near future.

Don't know if there's a Nautilus script that allows you to expand/collapse all folders.

What does work, is to expand directories "level-by-level" by using the asterisk (*) multiple times (first time it expands all subdirectories, second time all subdirectories of subdirectories, etc.) - it's close to what you want, but admittedly not optimal.

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