Recent List and History

[lxp]

@jinsight

Doesn't seem to have anything to do with a list of Recent folders or files What is going on?

Yes. Use nodirs like in the button below.

@srinivassridhar

That folder only contains Internet Shortcuts. Upon clicking it seems to retrieve the file to save locally.

This might be caused by OneDrive and/or Office365. My Office installation is local. For me the menu only shows links to local files.

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Here's the entire menu. Not all entries seem to be useful. I put this together to try it out, but don't use it very often.

/appdata\Microsoft\Office\Recent

contains only links to files and folders.

Go PATH="/appdata\Microsoft\Office\Recent" FOLDERCONTENT=nodirs

works fine but

Go PATH="/appdata\Microsoft\Office\Recent" FOLDERCONTENT=nofiles

seems to get confused and shows nothing. Not sure if I am missing a parameter or if this is a bug.

XML

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<button backcol="none" display="icon" dropdown_glyph_slim="yes" label_pos="right" min_width="yes" textcol="none" type="menu">
	<label>Recent</label>
	<icon1>/dopusdata\User Data\icons\Clock.png,0</icon1>
	<button backcol="none" display="both" separate="yes" textcol="none">
		<label>Recent</label>
		<icon1>#recentlist</icon1>
		<function type="normal">
			<instruction>Recent SHOWICONS</instruction>
		</function>
	</button>
	<button backcol="none" display="both" separate="yes" textcol="none">
		<label>Clear Recent List</label>
		<icon1>#recentlistclear</icon1>
		<function type="normal">
			<instruction>Recent CLEAR</instruction>
		</function>
	</button>
	<button backcol="none" display="label" textcol="none" type="menu">
		<label>Recent (Opus) Files</label>
		<icon1>#newmenu</icon1>
		<button backcol="none" display="both" textcol="none">
			<label>Recent (Opus) Files</label>
			<icon1>#recentmenu</icon1>
			<function type="normal">
				<instruction>Go PATH=/recent FOLDERCONTENT=&quot;sortdate,sortreverse,nodirs,maxfiles=15&quot;</instruction>
			</function>
		</button>
	</button>
	<button backcol="none" display="label" separate="yes" textcol="none" type="menu">
		<label>Recent (Opus) Folders</label>
		<icon1>#newmenu</icon1>
		<button backcol="none" display="both" textcol="none">
			<label>Recent (Opus) Folders</label>
			<icon1>#recentmenu</icon1>
			<function type="normal">
				<instruction>Go PATH=/recent FOLDERCONTENT=sortdate,sortreverse,nofiles</instruction>
			</function>
		</button>
	</button>
	<button backcol="none" display="label" textcol="none" type="menu">
		<label>Recent (Shell) Files</label>
		<icon1>#newmenu</icon1>
		<button backcol="none" display="both" textcol="none">
			<label>Recent (Shell) Files</label>
			<icon1>#recentlist</icon1>
			<function type="normal">
				<instruction>Go PATH=&quot;shell:::{22877a6d-37a1-461a-91b0-dbda5aaebc99}&quot; FOLDERCONTENT=nodirs</instruction>
			</function>
		</button>
	</button>
	<button backcol="none" display="label" separate="yes" textcol="none" type="menu">
		<label>Recent (Shell) Folders</label>
		<icon1>#newmenu</icon1>
		<button backcol="none" display="both" textcol="none">
			<label>Recent (Shell) Folders</label>
			<icon1>#recentlist</icon1>
			<function type="normal">
				<instruction>Go PATH=&quot;shell:::{22877a6d-37a1-461a-91b0-dbda5aaebc99}&quot; FOLDERCONTENT=nofiles</instruction>
			</function>
		</button>
	</button>
	<button backcol="none" display="both" textcol="none" type="menu">
		<label>Recent (Office) Files</label>
		<icon1>#office</icon1>
		<button backcol="none" display="both" label_pos="right" textcol="none">
			<label>Recent (Office) Files</label>
			<icon1>#office</icon1>
			<function type="normal">
				<instruction>Go PATH=&quot;/appdata\Microsoft\Office\Recent&quot; FOLDERCONTENT=nodirs</instruction>
			</function>
		</button>
	</button>
	<button backcol="none" display="both" textcol="none" type="menu">
		<label>Recent (Office) Folders</label>
		<icon1>#office</icon1>
		<button backcol="none" display="both" label_pos="right" textcol="none">
			<label>Recent (Office) Folders</label>
			<icon1>#office</icon1>
			<function type="normal">
				<instruction>Go PATH=&quot;/appdata\Microsoft\Office\Recent&quot; FOLDERCONTENT</instruction>
				<instruction />
				<instruction>// =nofiles</instruction>
			</function>
		</button>
	</button>
</button>

[Leo]

Everything under Recent is a .lnk file so “nofiles” probably filters everything out.

(The .lnk may point to a folder, but it probably won’t know that yet when doing the filtering.)

[lxp]

@Leo

so “nofiles” probably filters everything out.

Yes, it does. But nodirs can detect links that point to folders:

FOLDERCONTENT

FOLDERCONTENT=nodirs

[srinivassridhar]

After I added the menu button for Recent Files and restarted DO, my toolbar now displays all the files and folders I recently visited and the menu buttons have disappeared.
How can I clean this up short of resetting the installation?

[lxp]

Move the button into a menu.

[srinivassridhar]

I should have done that first.
But now I need to remove all the folders you can see on the toolbar. Seems all the entries in the Recent Items list are being displayed on the toolbar which I need to clean up.
TIA.

[srinivassridhar]

I factory reset the toolbar so it is ok now. Thanks.