Gee Nat if you go around th place shouting in the fashion that you have in this post then I sure feel sorry for your goat :-)
On 4/16/09, Nathanael Kennedy <[email protected]> wrote: > > There are serious problems, even at a security level, with OpenOffice... > > There is no EASY OR STRAIGHTFORWARD WAY to DELETE the entire list of > "Recent > Documents". Documents I no longer care about, I of course delete. > DOCUMENTS REMAIN ON THE "RECENT DOCUMENTS" LIST LONG AFTER THEY'VE BEEN > DELETED (FOR MONTHS, SOMETIMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) This is a serious > annoyance & could even be considered a serious security flaw on a computer > used by several individuals. > > What I want is simple. Simple enough for me to consider learning some > programming and trying to make the update myself... > > There NEEDS TO BE an option, posted right at the top of the "Recent > Documents" list, to "Clear Documents" that will delete the whole recent > documents list, just as easily as opening a document. > > The other update that NEEDS TO BE MADE, and should be as simple as a few > lines of code, is to CHECK TO SEE IF THE FILE ACTUALLY EXISTS before > listing > in the "Recent Documents"!!! Nothing "gets my goat" more than seeing > documents that've been deleted MONTHS AGO, still being listed in the > "Recent > Documents"... there needs to be a relatively easy way to entirely DISABLE > the entire Recent Documents list, as well as Delete references > ("shortcuts") > to files on the computer.. > -- Mike Moller Lallybroch Alpacas New Zealand www.lallybroch.co.nz
