Windows 10: What is the workaround to "retrieve" or "save" your [working] file to your "RECENTS Folder"...

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  1. Sammy888 Win User

    What is the workaround to "retrieve" or "save" your [working] file to your "RECENTS Folder"...


    I believe starting with Windows 10 perhaps W8 we no longer could "pull" or access RECENT FOLDERS or RECENT FILES within a given application. The result is very time consuming especially if you have many directories.I know for a fact with W7 I could be working in a random app and I would select "Save As" and the Quick Access tree menu will display both RECENT FOLDERS and RECENT FILES. It boggles my mind that the Quick Access menu will show RECENT FOLDERS or RECENT Files if manually created when just "bopping around" but not within in any application that I have.This functionality is

    :)
     
    Sammy888, Jan 13, 2023
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  2. Saving a file to a folder

    Hi Dean,

    Welcome to Microsoft Community and we appreciate your interest in Windows 10.

    I will definitely assist you

    It would be grateful if you could provide us few questions answer to understand the issue better and to provide you better assistance.


    • How are you accessing emails through web browser or through a mail client (mail app, outlook 2010/2013)?

    • Are you trying to save the email attached file? Please elaborate.
    If you are using Outlook email, let’s try simple steps and check if it helps. Try the below steps provided.

    Step 1.

    If you want to save only the attached file from the email, try the below step.


    • Right click on the attached file and click on Save as.

    • Now select a folder location where you want to save the attached file.
    Step 2.

    If you want to save the file along with the email try the below steps provided.


    • Open the mail you want to save and click on File on the top of the right side.

    • Click on Save As and select a folder location where you want to save the email.
    Hope this helps. If you need further assistance with Windows, let us know and will be glad to help.
     
    Billion Debbarma, Jan 13, 2023
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  3. slozomby Win User
    Recent File List

    Remove-ItemProperty -Path "Registry::HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
    \Applets\Paint\Recent File List" -name file1

    Remove-ItemProperty -Path "Registry::HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
    \Applets\Paint\Recent File List" -name file2
    Remove-ItemProperty -Path "Registry::HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
    \Applets\Paint\Recent File List" -name file3
    Remove-ItemProperty -Path "Registry::HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
    \Applets\Paint\Recent File List" -name file4
    Remove-ItemProperty -Path "Registry::HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
    \Applets\Paint\Recent File List" -name file5
    Remove-ItemProperty -Path "Registry::HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
    \Applets\Paint\Recent File List" -name file6
    Remove-ItemProperty -Path "Registry::HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
    \Applets\Paint\Recent File List" -name file7
    Remove-ItemProperty -Path "Registry::HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
    \Applets\Paint\Recent File List" -name file8
    Remove-ItemProperty -Path "Registry::HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
    \Applets\Paint\Recent File List" -name file9
    ...

    you get the idea. ( too lazy to put it in a for loop and test it.

    or just open regedit and remove all the fileX from that key.
     
    slozomby, Jan 13, 2023
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  4. What is the workaround to "retrieve" or "save" your [working] file to your "RECENTS Folder"...

    Recent folders / frequent folders / recent files / quick access

    Ok, this is driving me mad.

    Until recently there was a fantastic feature in Windows called Recent Places (or something like that). It's no longer available and this must cost me 5 minutes per hour (for which I will invoice Microsoft.)

    Now there is the Quick Access menu, which performs a somewhat similar function, but very, very poorly.

    Here's what was good about the Recent Places:

    • As soon as I used a folder, it was available in recent places
    • As soon as I used a FILE, it was available in recent places
    • Recent Places was always available - in searches, in context menus and in Save As
    • When I was working in three different applications (say, creating a graph in Excel, image-editing it in Illustrator then dropping it into PowerPoint) I was instantly able to access the place I had saved it in each application, because saving the Excel file
      triggered that folder to appear in Recent Places.
    • I could also open a file in a different application (save it in Gimp and then open it in Photoshop) by finding the file in the recent places folder.

    Here's what doesn't work about the Quick Access menu

    • It does not automatically add the folder to the window until it has been used a certain number of times.
    • This is hopeless, because if I need to access the folder, say, 5 times between my three applications, then by the time the folder is in Quick Access I NO LONGER NEED IT! I need the same folder immediately after I have used it, not 25 minutes later when
      the system realises "hey - you seem to use that folder a lot".
    • It does not keep files - only folders.

    What I want to happen

    • 10 out of 10 solution: I want the old system back.
    • 9 out of 10 solution: Quick Access tracks files and folders and immediately adds them when saved
    • 8 out of 10 as a workaround. Even if files can't get to Quick Access, it would be great to be able to tweak the algorithm that gets a
      folder into the Quick Access location. The sensitivity for getting a folder into Quick Access should be settable, even with just two settings: "place folders in Quick Access immediately when used" and "Place folders in Quick access when used
      often."

    Please please please return this functionality. It was a major, major timesaver, particularly when working at the end of a long folder path.
     
    RobbityBobbityBoo, Jan 13, 2023
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