Files keep disappearing from MRU list

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Rojo Habe

I have certain documents I access most days by clicking Start > Recent Items
and selecting the file from the list. If I open a lot of files (for example
by dumping the photos from my camera and editing them) this list fills up
and my regular files get pushed out. All well and to be expected, but if I
open one of those files again shouldn't they reappear on the list? The
shortcuts are still in my Recent folder
(C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\) but not on
my Recent Items list on the Start menu. I rather suspect what it's doing is
showing the first fifteen items and sorting them by Name rather than by Date
Accessed. Unfortunately, although I can sort the folder by this field it
has no effect on the Start Menu list. The only thing I can do is Delete
everything in the Recent folder and start from scratch. Once I get more
than fifteen items I start losing the ones higher up the alphabet again.

Any ideas how I can make this menu item behave the way it should (and how it
worked in XP) by showing the most recent items rather than those with the
lowest ASCII value? I don't mind if it sorts the list alphabetically, so
long as it is actually showing the most recently accessed files.
 
Rojo Habe said:
I have certain documents I access most days by clicking Start > Recent
Items and selecting the file from the list. If I open a lot of files (for
example by dumping the photos from my camera and editing them) this list
fills up and my regular files get pushed out. All well and to be expected,
but if I open one of those files again shouldn't they reappear on the list?
The shortcuts are still in my Recent folder
(C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\) but not on
my Recent Items list on the Start menu. I rather suspect what it's doing
is showing the first fifteen items and sorting them by Name rather than by
Date Accessed. Unfortunately, although I can sort the folder by this field
it has no effect on the Start Menu list. The only thing I can do is Delete
everything in the Recent folder and start from scratch. Once I get more
than fifteen items I start losing the ones higher up the alphabet again.

Any ideas how I can make this menu item behave the way it should (and how
it worked in XP) by showing the most recent items rather than those with
the lowest ASCII value? I don't mind if it sorts the list alphabetically,
so long as it is actually showing the most recently accessed files.
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If you right click on "recent items" and choose "explore" then right click
in the right hand window (where the shortcuts are) and select "sort by" you
have sorting options. I am not sure if this sticks though. I mean I don't
know whether they will still be sorted by date (or whatever) when you next
access the list.
Worth a try though?
 
Hi - Have you been able to find a resolution to this issue other than
deleting the contents of the 'recent' folder (which is an inane work around!).
 
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If you right click on "recent items" and choose "explore" then right click
in the right hand window (where the shortcuts are) and select "sort by" you
have sorting options. I am not sure if this sticks though. I mean I don't
know whether they will still be sorted by date (or whatever) when you next
access the list.
Worth a try though?
Click to expand...

Sorry for the late reply. For some reason my own posts (in this case the
wuole thread) aren't showing up in Windows Mail so I wasn't aware I'd had any
replies. This is coming at you via the Web interface, which I don't like at
all. Anyway, I digress...

Unfortunately, although you can sort the contents of the Recent folder to
your heart's content, and although this does indeed stick, the Start Menu
always sorts it by name, so no luck there I'm afraid.
 
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