Hi Karen
Ozkan's idea looks good - sorting them into different folders
and changing your Menu Folder command so it shows a subfolder
of Recent containing the text docs.
You need to consider how often the script should be run - once
every few seconds would be too much overhead.
You could set it in Scheduler to run once every hour or even
daily - and also run it on demand, when needed, just before
accessing the Recent folder.

K> (and the list takes forever to load, as there's obviously
K> a lot of stuff there... how can I limit that?)

Win 95/98 limited the number of files automatically by deleting
the oldest links when the number exceeded the maximum.
Win 2000/XP lost that feature. The Recent item on the start menu
only shows a (most recent 20 (approx)) subset of the contents
of the Recent folder, which grows huge.

PowerPro has a built in command for that:

File deleteold 5 c:/temp
File deleteold 4 c:/temp/*.ext
File.deleteold(days_expresion,path_expression)
File deleteold 3 recent

The parameters are a number of days then a folder path, optionally
including wild cards in a file name. All files older than the
specified number of days are deleted to the recycle bin. You can
use recent as the folder name to access the folder of recently
accessed documents.

That only needs to be run once every day approx. You could put
a File Deleteold command as a PowerPro Scheduled event, either
startup or once per day.

Of course, if you use both Ozkan's suggestion and also File
Deleteold, you could combine them in the same script, sorting
them into subfolders and also deleting all files older than 10
days in Recent and in each of its subfolders.

Alan Martin



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