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2011-06-20 06:54:02
drdocument
Registered: Mar 25 2011
Posts: 13
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Earlier versions of Acrobat provided, in the "Open Recent" drop-down from the File menu, an additional sub-menu for "History", enabling user to select from previously opened documents in the previous week, month, etc.
 
This feature seems to be missing from Acrobat X.
 
Any way to restore it?

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 10.0.2, Macintosh
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2011-06-20 07:16:04
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lkassuba
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Registered: Jun 28 2007
Posts: 3636
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This has changed in Acrobat X -- with the addition of the Welcome Screen. You can however, set the number of document listed in the recently used list (up to 10) under Edit > Preferences > Documents.

Lori Kassuba is an AUC Expert and Community Manager for AcrobatUsers.com.

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2011-06-20 07:34:53
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drdocument
Registered: Mar 25 2011
Posts: 13
Yes, thanks. I noticed that it had changed.
And I wish it would be restored.
I use many PDFs and often need to open previously opened documents, usually more than 10 per day. So with this feature now missing, I now must use the multi-step search function to find files outside the most recent 10.

Far less convenient and more time-consuming than simply moving the cursor from Open Recent to "History".

It may be that OS X Lion will provide this feature system-wide. Hope so. Too bad Adobe programmers didn't consider it valuable enough to keep.
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2011-06-20 08:31:09
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UVSAR
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Registered: Oct 29 2008
Posts: 1357
It's not that it wasn't "valuable", it was getting beyond practicable to maintain given the way people store documents (shared networks, virtual folders, plug-and-play drives, cloud servers, etc.)


drdocument wrote:
Too bad Adobe programmers didn't consider it valuable enough to keep.
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2011-06-20 08:52:59
#4
drdocument
Registered: Mar 25 2011
Posts: 13
There must be something more that I do not understand. Is it something more than simply a table of file name, path and date modified?
I guess I'll just find a workaround.
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2011-06-21 06:47:25
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UVSAR
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Registered: Oct 29 2008
Posts: 1357
The File>History menu was driven by the Organizer plugin, which did indeed do a great deal more than just remember the files you opened. It's hard to explain concisely what Organizer did, but in effect it was a virtual file system where you could group files into "collections" without actually changing anything on disk.The Organizer plugin was removed for the reasons I've explained, and as a consequence the history menu list had to go as well.
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2011-06-21 06:58:37
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drdocument
Registered: Mar 25 2011
Posts: 13
Thanks. As in all things, "there's no such thing as a free lunch," so resources need to be balanced.

I'm confident I'll be able to find an alternative (or make one with a script).


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