ODDITY: Open Recent shows file path

[greenmorpher]

Hello

I have Open Recent set to 50 items. Now -- two of them show the full file path (see attached), both a Nisus macro. I can't remember the circumstances under which opening it/them occurred (they might have been different versions of the same macro). It might have been when I opened and saved Philip's attachment.

I just experimented with opening and saving as the same macro from and back to the Macros folder, but no path appeared.

Two other files also show a path -- but very abbreviated to include only the HD they were from and saved to, not the full path. In both cases, these were RTF "Read Me" files that came with programs.

As you can see, with the whole path saved, the menu is stretching across two thirds of my 22" screen.

Cheers, Geoff

Geoffrey Heard
The Ad Doctor Online

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[martin]

The Open Recent menu is actually managed by Apple/OSX. I'm not sure when they decide to show more path information for a particular file. Maybe because you had some similarly named files on the menu at once?

[Kino]

Geoff, how did you enable that feature? ;-))) That is impossible. From what I have observed, when there are multiple files of the exactly same name, the Open Recent menu shows a folder, but just a single folder which can differentiate them.

I think you don't have two copies of "Geoff's Billing Macro.nwm" in "calculation" folder. Or can you open them in separate windows?

If not, most likely, com.nisus.NisusWriter.plist in Preferences folder would be somewhat corrupted. If you still have the problem, I think you'd better replace it with an earlier copy if you are backing it up.

And if you really have two files of the same name in the same folder... you have to suspect a hard disk problem.

Or perhaps one of them is a backup copy accidentally displayed for some reason? How have you configured Backups in Preferences - Saving?

[greenmorpher]

I don't know how it happened. I've tried all sorts of things and I don't get this full path.

I just opened the thing out of the attachments folder and saved to the Macros folder, and got the folders pointed to. Lower down -- another variations -- disks named.

Cheers, Geoff

Geoffrey Heard
The Ad Doctor Online

Win business with the recession-busting "How to make great ads for (sm)all business: 99 real world advertising ideas to kickstart *your* business today". See http://www.worsleypress.com