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• How to access program-spefiic jump lists in QAP (similar to Recent Files)?

  emp00 > 2023-05-28 06:36

  Dear Team,
  
  I'm still a heavy user of the good old "Open Shell" Start-Menu which allows access to program-specific jump lists. For example in the screenshot you can see my recently accessed "Libre Office Writer" files. 
  
  I'd like to have exactly this functionality in QAP -> currently I already use the "Recent Files" popup which shows all recently used files. But since this list is much too crowded, I'd like to have separate access to the e.g. "Libre Office Writer files" jump list in QAP. Just like in the Open Shell menu but even more conveniently with QAP...
  
  How can this be achieved? I checked the QAP FAQ and googled for help but nothing found... Many thanks for help + suggestions!
  
  

• RE: How to access program-spefiic jump lists in QAP (similar to Recent Files)?

  Jean Lalonde > 2023-05-28 09:27

  Hi emp00. Welcome to the forum. This feature does not exist in QAP. I'll move your post to the Suggestion section.
  
  Jean

• RE: How to access program-spefiic jump lists in QAP (similar to Recent Files)?

  emp00 > 2023-05-28 09:50

  Hi Jean, nice talking to you and THANKS for this great tool!
  
  Digging into the QAP documentation I was hoping "my feature" would be possible via Live Folders -> include Documents -> include e.g. "docx" ? This would filter out all other files and restrict the found documents to LibreOffice Writer files (or Word, but that's OK).
  
  My main problem is, how can I access the Recent Files to be filtered in Basic Settings: Folder Path?
  
  I tested using "C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent" and the first time it actually showed all of my Recent Files. Then I tried adding the docx filter -> but not no more documents showed up then (despite a lot of docx files in the Recent Files folder). I then removed the "include" filter completely and ever since, I cannot even reproduce that all Recent Files are shown...
  
  I think we can make this work somehow with Live Folders, I will continue to try. If you have any idea let me know.

• RE: How to access program-spefiic jump lists in QAP (similar to Recent Files)?

  Jean Lalonde > 2023-05-28 10:12

  It would be a good idea. Unfortunately, the "Recent" folder contains file shortcuts to the files. These shortcuts cannot be filtered.
  
  Anybody else has an idea?

• RE: How to access program-spefiic jump lists in QAP (similar to Recent Files)?

  emp00 > 2023-05-28 10:23

  Exactly that was my problem why the "include filter" did not work - those are "lnk" shortcut-files!
  
  However, I just got it working as follows:
  - Live Folder linked to "C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent"
  - Include documents, include "*xls* *xlm*"
  
  With the double-asterisk this shows all lnk-files which (mostly, but not all) are actually Excel respectively Libreoffice Calc files as desired! I set up the same functionality for Writer/Word and PDF files.
  
  This works quite nice - but some cosmetics are not perfect, e.g. icons are not "Excel" / "Word" but for lnk files and I think I need a RegEx to correctly filter all Excel/Word files and exclude files with "xls" in the name etc.
  
  But this is already working - thanks to the flexible Live Folders :-) Still I think it can be improved and I'm sure more people will love this as a dedicated option -> "program specific Recent Files" or "program specific Jump Lists" could be the name for this...
  
  Here's how it looks now for me:
  
  

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  See above, I added a screenshot how it looks now --> quite ok already!!!

• RE: How to access program-spefiic jump lists in QAP (similar to Recent Files)?

  Jean Lalonde > 2023-05-29 10:11

  Thanks for the follow up.
  
  >"program specific Recent Files" or "program specific Jump Lists"
  
  Yes ti could be added to the wishlist. But it could be achieved differently. It could be a new Live Folders option "For File Shortcuts (.lnk files), show target files" making sure the filter is applied on the target files, not the shortcut. What do you think? It would allow to filter Recent files folder or any other folder containing shortcuts. It could also show the icon of the target file (or the icon of the shortcut's properties?).

• RE: How to access program-spefiic jump lists in QAP (similar to Recent Files)?

  emp00 > 2023-05-29 10:40

  For now, I'm 100% happy with my "workaround". Not much changed to the above approach, just this:
  - Folder path changed to the more universal "%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent"
  - Live Folder options: a) sort by modified date b) include documents, filter "*.xls* *.xlm*" (for Excel files)
  - Added manual icons to my sub-menus; the (lnk)-document icons seem to correctly associated to e.g. Excel already!
  
  Using the "*.xls*" including the "dot" now ensures that 99% of all found files are indeed only .xls* files.
  
  Here's how it looks now, will test it under productive work conditions in the coming days.
  
  "The looks" are great (for me) and it works as of now :-) ==> for other interested users, you might consider just adding this as an FAQ article? I think no real code changes are required... But let me check in the coming days, maybe it's not as perfect as I currently think it is. Live Folders are GREAT!! :-)
  
  Note: I have LibreOffice installed here, that's why the "Word" icons look a little bit unusual, that's the LibreOffce icon (although looking a little bit differently). At least for pdf, I do see the "real" pdf icon. Will test on another machine running MS Office in the coming days.
  
  

• RE: How to access program-spefiic jump lists in QAP (similar to Recent Files)?

  emp00 > 2023-06-03 16:13

  In the meantime I digged a bit into the Windows "jump list" functionalities. Found out, that program- or App-specific jump lists are actually not stored in "%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent" but in two sub-folders and special ".customDestinations-ms" files here:
  
  - %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations
  - %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\CustomDestinations
  
  A free nirsoft utility decodes those files and displays the content: https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/jump_lists_view.html
  
  Found two repositories decoding these files:
  - https://github.com/kacos2000/Jumplist-Browser
  - https://github.com/ashbeats/jumplist-parser-lite
  
  These app specific jump list files obviously contain a longer history of all recently used files for practically all modern Windows programs/apps. Seems to be a MS standard file format.
  
  It would be a great feature, if QAP could make this accessible for "Recent Files": Just like the Open-Shell Start menu, see screenshot in the initial posting above.

• RE: How to access program-spefiic jump lists in QAP (similar to Recent Files)?

  Jean Lalonde > 2023-06-03 22:22

  Interesting. I'll add it top the wish list when I'm back.

• RE: How to access program-spefiic jump lists in QAP (similar to Recent Files)?

  Jean Lalonde > 2023-06-28 06:59

  Added. Thanks.
  https://forum.quickaccesspopup.com/showt...p?tid=2519
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