Alan Martin wrote: >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. > > It's sensational actually, answered my next q too! Thanks for that Ozkan :)
>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. > > thanks, will do >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. > > ahhh... yes, I occasionally clean the folder out, haven't for a while it seems tho >File deleteold 5 c:/temp >File deleteold 4 c:/temp/*.ext >File.deleteold(days_expresion,path_expression) >File deleteold 3 recent > < ... > >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. > > Yes, yes, yes!! [sorry ;)] This is fantastic, perfect, brilliant. Wow. Thank you again Alan, I am eternally indebted. :) Karen ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/JV_rlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Attention: PowerPro's Web site has moved: http://www.ppro.org Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/power-pro/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
