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Main => Everything Else => Topic started by: CCM on December 18, 2013, 11:41:44 am
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Anyone know if you can export your list of recent documents containing the full path to a text file?
I am using Windows 7 Pro with Office 2010. I can navigate to %userprofile%/recent to bring up the list of recent documents. I want to be able to export this list and have it include the full path to the document and the date the document was last modified.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
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not sure what you are after, but you can execute a "dir > filename.txt" command which will create a text file of the directory contents in a new "filename.txt". :dunno
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Strange thing is if I go to the search bar in the start menu and type: %userprofile%/recent it opens a window that shows all recent docs and files, but when I drop to a command prompt and navigate to the recent folder and do a dir I get no results...
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Strange thing is if I go to the search bar in the start menu and type: %userprofile%/recent it opens a window that shows all recent docs and files, but when I drop to a command prompt and navigate to the recent folder and do a dir I get no results...
oopsie :lol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_folder (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_folder)
i belive the "recent documents" is actually stored as entries in the registry.
you should still be able to write a script to extract it though. (i'm not real good with that) I know you can create a .reg file to add/remove entries from the registry...it stands to reason you could get it out.
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Interesting! That at least points me in the right direction! Thanks!
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I was able to extract the registry entries of the last 50 Word and 50 Excel documents that were accessed. I just extracted the registry to a text file and I was able to see the full path of the documents. I was then able to view the recent documents (%userprofile%/recent) to get the last date the docs were accessed.
Thanks again!
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So who are you spying on and why?