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).
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On 2/23/2020 9:12 PM, between "Ed Vance : All":
When I write a.TXT or.RTF file in NotePad or WordPad and
want to Save it, XP "Remembers" the Sub-Directory I recently
used and wants to put it there.
Actually, I think it is the program that "remembers" the last used 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?
When I use Notepad to open a previous file in a particular directory,
it will Save it in that same directory. Save As.. behaves the same
way.
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.
When you open the apps first, and create a new document, the apps use
the directory where you last saved a previous file.
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.
I don't want it "there" so I have to change where XP wants
it to go, to where I want it to go.
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.
Lots of times I forget to look where my newly written file
will be Saved To, and later have to look around the recent
Sub-Directories I have remembered using recently to find
that File.
Easy, use the My Recent Documents.. option in the Start menu. As you hover over each document in the list, you will see a bubble pop-up that 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.
Is there any Setting I could change to get XP to quit
Remembering recently used Sub-Directories?
Save As.. seems to be your best bet. Then you can "put" the document 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 . .
... Have you checked your smoke detector batteries & Fire Ext, LATELY?!
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