Recently opened Documents - Disable View of Path in List ?

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Recently opened Documents - Disable View of Path in List ?

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Is this possible ? My List is very confuisung due to very long path names. If not please regard this as feature request and forward message to developers!

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Re: Recently opened Documents - Disable View of Path in List

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Hi Marek,

The actual document name should be displayed as the last portion of a row in that list,

and in fact you will have paths like "c:\some folder\ .... document_name.pdf"

And if you notice most applications that offer such lists are behaving this way. While it might be a bit overwhelming - it will help in you distinguishing between two files with the same name but located in different folders (e.g. if you have two versions of a file). If only the file names are displayed it will be really hard to tell which file is which and from what folder it comes, and this is usually the bigger problem :)

So I do not believe the appearance of this list would be changed.

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Re: Recently opened Documents - Disable View of Path in List

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Thanks for your answer. But I have to persist on my wish ;-) I am handling with many Textbooks as reference when writing articles. So that I only need the name of the book and I do not care about the source folder. For my needs the mentioned option would be helpful. I know the benefits you wrote about.

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Re: Recently opened Documents - Disable View of Path in List

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Hi Marek,

Thanks for the input. I am now discussing this with the project leader and will let you know the result of this discussion.

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Re: Recently opened Documents - Disable View of Path in List

Post by Arnold »

This is an option I would use also.
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Re: Recently opened Documents - Disable View of Path in List

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An elegant solution would be to reverse the Quick-Info behavior. The list shows only the Name of the PDF and the Quickinfo the full path then the mouse is over the item.

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Re: Recently opened Documents - Disable View of Path in List

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HI Marek,

nice suggestion. Another option might be to be able to toggle between full paths and file names only.

Also I have made this a formal Feature Request: RT#1583: Feature Request: Recently opened Documents - Disable View of Path in List ? That doesn't promise that the feature will be included but is does provide a record of the request and it will definitely be evaluated.
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