Export recent documents list

[CCM]

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

[lilshawn]

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". 

[CCM]

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...

[lilshawn]

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 

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.

[CCM]

Interesting!   That at least points me in the right direction!    Thanks!

[CCM]

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!

[pbj]

So who are you spying on and why?