02-25-20 05:20 August Abolins wrote to Ed Vance about Quit XP "Remembering"
Howdy! August,
Thanks for the Reply, forgive me for not getting ROUNDTUIT until now.
Its been a Month.

I forget to write Replies to messages after I wake up, if the hour was
late when I read the message and I go to sleep.

The TIME was 21:04 when I grabbed the QWK Packet Your message came in.

YES! "I" have that FIRST SIGN of Old Age,

(and have had it for 30 or so Years).

 AA> @MSGID: 
 AA> @REPLY: 
 AA> On 2/23/2020 9:12 PM, between "Ed Vance : All":

 EV> When I write a.TXT or.RTF file in NotePad or WordPad and
 EV> want to Save it, XP "Remembers" the Sub-Directory I recently
 EV> used and wants to put it there.

 AA> Actually, I think it is the program that "remembers" the last used
 AA> directory, not XP.

Many times I wished "the program" would remember the Settings I had set
for the Printer.
I Save many things by using the DoPDF Print Driver to put what I see on a
Web Page in a File -"AND"- whatever Text File I want to Print to the
Printer gets Saved as a PDF file.

OH!, The Life with a Computer is Fun!

At least around here it is.

How about at Your place?

 AA> When I use Notepad to open a previous file in a particular directory,
 AA> it will Save it in that same directory.  Save As.. behaves the same
 AA> way.

 AA> Wordpad behaves the same way for me.

It is NEW Notepad files being Saved to a strange to me for the TOPIC the
Text File is about.

 AA> When you open the apps first, and create a new document, the apps use
 AA> the directory where you last saved a previous file.

 AA> That seems rather convenient, for me.

My problem is I have many Sub-DIrectories I Save Notepad Files in.
BBS Stuff goes here, Operating System Stuff goes there, Medical Stuff gets
put somewhere else, Home Stuff has its place too.

If I want to Open a Text File about a BBS Subject, I have a Quicklaunch Icon
I Click for that, when I want to look at something about Medical I have a
Quicklaunch Icon to Click on to take me to the Sub-Directory where I have
put that type of file.  Etc., Etc., Etc. ........

You know the "Burger King" slogan: "You can have it YOUR WAY!", that's how
I want "Life in the Computer Room" to be.

Tain't So here, but I turn "IT" on everytime I have a chance.

 EV> I don't want it "there" so I have to change where XP wants
 EV> it to go, to where I want it to go.

 AA> Easy, use Save As.., then you have the option to put it somewhere else.

Thank You VERY MUCH for that suggestion.

I've been trying to remember to do that since I read Your Reply last Month.
It hard to break the habit of using Keyboard Shortcuts like CTRL-s when I
first Save a portion of a new NotePad or WordPad File I'm writing.

 EV> Lots of times I forget to look where my newly written file
 EV> will be Saved To, and later have to look around the recent
 EV> Sub-Directories I have remembered using recently to find
 EV> that File.

 AA> Easy, use the My Recent Documents.. option in the Start menu.  As you
 AA> hover over each document in the list, you will see a bubble pop-up that
 AA> reveals the location.

I sometimes have done that, one of my problems is I Look At OR Make MANY
MANY Files and the Drop Down List for Recent Documents no longer shows that
particular File in it.

I just Pressed Start - Documents and there are just 15 Recent Files in the
Drop Down listing.

Pressing Start - Doucments - My Documents has over 50 Files and Many
Sub-Directories and most of those Files and Sub-Directories I haven't used
for many Years.

When I got this XP box in June 2006 it came with 1MB DDR-2 RAM and the HDD
was 250GB.
That 250GB HDD was very close to getting filled up so I put a 2TB HDD in the
box and Cloned what was on the original HDD on to the new HDD.

I "think" it may be a long time before I start sweating aging about "IF" I
have room to Download a 15GB File, or something like that.

 EV> Is there any Setting I could change to get XP to quit
 EV> Remembering recently used Sub-Directories?

 AA> Save As.. seems to be your best bet.  Then you can "put" the document
 AA> wherever you want.

Again, I say THANK YOU VERY MUCH! for that suggestion.

In 1958 I passed the F.C.C.'s Amatuer Radio Novice test and received a
License to operate on the Ham Bands.
Back then, I knew of two local Ham Radio Clubs.

A lot of my High School HAM Friends were menbers of one of those Clubs.

I joined the Other Club, because I WANTED TO KNOW WHAT the Older, Experienced
Hams who were Members of that Other Club ALREADY KNEW.
(In later Years I joined the other Club also)

I can't remember if any of the Older Hams ever operated "Spark Gap"
Transmitters, but They have been on the Air a lot and learned many things by
experience.

That is why I BBS.

i WANT TO KNOW WHAT OTHER PEOPLE KNOW ALREADY.

How else could I ever achieve the Status of being A Mister Know-It-All?

And I THANK YOU! Again for the Suggestion to use SaveAs... instead  of doing
as I always did by Saving a new Text File with the CTRL-s shortcut.

73 de Ed W9ODR     .  .


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