You may find Quick Launch a better solution than pinning documents to
the task bar or start menu. See
How to Add Quick Launch toolbar in Windows 10
https://mywindowshub.com/add-quick-launch-toolbar-windows-10/
- Russ
On 12/14/2021 2:10 PM, ACG wrote:
Correct.... the wail of many a Scottish school student despite being
caught redhanded
"It was not me...."
/À nos devoirs/: (French, meaning: to the business at hand)
I am running Windows 10 (machine too old to upgrade, sadly) and I have
a short-cut to OO writer on the start menu.
It shows recent documents and here you can pin individual items to the
menu - so they will stay there even if otherwise they would have
dropped off the top 10 (or however many it is).
At any one time I will have a small number of documents I am referring
to from time to time - so I will pin them for a period and then when
the project has reached a conclusion (eg I have put the paper up
online) then I will unpin it and in due course it will slide back into
oblivion (ie the folder where I put it in the first place). Because
the topics I am writing about overlap it is sometimes hard to make a
clear and sensible choice as to which folder should be their home (and
often this means going up several layers of nesting before descending
as many again etc.... - which is why Brian's comments (below) while
drôle are not actually apposite.
My remarks were primarily aimed at the list on the start menu. An
upgrade to OO voided this list altogether and if I then opened the
document via the recent documents frop down menu within the program
itself this was not enough to put it back on the start menu recent
document list.
Only by going to the file itself and invoking OO writer by clicking on
the file in question would it then be recognised and placed on the
start menu recent list.
Although I was very annoyed at the time - and it took a while to work
out what was going on - I am no masochist, so I have not recreated the
problem for myself. However on occasion I have had to open a document
from the RD menu in the program and then start the Save As process to
establish where it is located. I can then go to the correct folder and
open it /ab initio/ from there - putting it onto the start menu RD
list so that I can then pin it if required.
Returning to Brian's remark: we all know what happens to memory
(computer and human) as it gets full: search time increases
asymptotically. Such brain as I have left is far too valuable to be
cluttered with car keys (always put them back in their place or there
is serious trouble) or document folders.
Adrian
On 14/12/2021 00:03, Dave wrote:
Thanks David,
For a short period of time I lived in Scotland and really enjoyed that
time, except that I could never fully understand what those fantastic
Scottish folks were saying to me :)
Dave
On 13/12/2021 23:43, David Robley wrote:
Soooo ut wisnae me sounds like a Scots(?) accent "so it was nae
[not] me"
On 14/12/21 10:13 am, Dave wrote:
Yes, apologies, I clicked send before checking all aspects of the
message to be sent.
Sorry, I don't understand the shorthand:
"Soooo ut wisnae me."
Look forward to your reply tomorrow.
Dave
-------- Original Message --------
From: ACG [mailto:freuc...@idnet.com]
Sent: Monday, December 13, 2021, 23:34 UTC
To:users@openoffice.apache.org
Subject: File [not] deleted
Err.... Dave.... it was your message to me which was off list.
Soooo ut wisnae me.
Too tired now, will try to answer tomorrow...
Adrian
On 13/12/2021 23:08, Moderator wrote:
Hi Adrian,
Can we please keep this ON-LIST.
IF you are so so fully aware of these things, why do you still
believe
that the software should be expected to continuously track
EVERYTHING
across your entire OS file system and and continuously rebuild this
simplistic pointer/shortcut list.
You provide ZERO evidence that that some "unidentified" update
"wiped"
the "recent documents" list. Even though that may be true, because
software, especially updates, can produce unpredictable results,
anyone
who chooses relies entirely on some weak, simplistic archive record
outside of the OS, must accept the consequences of their choice.
For the benefit of others reading this and may be interested, can
you
please describe your "work around"?
Dave
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*From:* ACG [mailto:freuc...@idnet.com]
*Sent:* Monday, December 13, 2021, 22:42 UTC
*To:* Dave
*Subject:* File [not] deleted
Thanks, Dave, but I am fully aware of these things.
The fact is that following an update the recent documents list was
wiped. That includes pinned documents.
It is also the case that there are circumstances where the way you
open a file may or may not trigger it being registered on the
"recent
documents" list.
Because I do understand these things I have been able to work
around
it - but it is a faff.
Adrian
On 13/12/2021 22:32, Dave wrote:
-------- Original Message --------
From: ACG [mailto:freuc...@idnet.com]
Sent: Monday, December 13, 2021, 21:48 UTC
To:users@openoffice.apache.org
Subject: File [not] deleted
On 13/12/2021 21:39, Brian Barker wrote:
At 14:29 13/12/2021 +0000, Adrian Grant wrote:
It's a bit of a faff - and you have to remember where they [sc.
your
document files] all are ...
It's funny that: I find the same applies to many other things,
too. I
have to remember where my keys are, my spectacles, my phone, my
car,
those tomatoes I bought yesterday - oh, and my document files.
Brian Barker
Très drôle - but having to repopulate a "recent documents"
list is a
pain....
Adrian Grant
You appear to be unaware of what the "recent documents" list is.
It is nothing more than a very simplistic record of files that
were
previously opened/used by the software at some point in time. If
those
files have been relocated/deleted by anything outside of the
software's
control, the "recent documents" pointers/shortcuts to those
locations
will be invalidated.
If you, as a user, choose to reconstruct/repopulate that list of
pointers/shortcuts that is your choice, but it is not something
the
software should be expected to continuously track across your
entire OS
file system and continuously rebuild.
"In my NOT so humble opinion", for inexperienced computer/software
users
the "recent documents" list is the worst, most misleading and
confusing
thing ever added to the software. It is only useful if you
genuinely
understand what it really is and how it functions.
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