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It works well with files, but when i tried add a folder to my Frequent Folder list using SHAddToRecentDocs,
In 'C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent', i did find it, but it will not show in file explorer frequent folder list.
I've checked the nf-shlobj_core-shaddtorecentdocs docs, since it says:
'Folders are also accepted by SHAddToRecentDocs, but appear only in the Jump List for the Windows Explorer taskbar button. Folders do not appear in any other application's Jump List.'
Supposed to show in the frequent list, but not.
Am i understood it wrong or there's other things i should do to make it work?
Could you please tell us, what application are you using? Win32 application? or c# application? Could you please provide the sample to help us reproduce the issue?
Sure, In Github repo: clean-recent/dll, the folder QuickAccess is a class library project, you can build it to get QuickAccess.dll. Then try
using QuickAccess;
QuickAccess.QuickAccessHandler myQuickAccess = new QuickAccess.QuickAccessHandler();
bool add_res = myQuickAccess.AddToQuickAccess("D:\\Projects");
Console.WriteLine("Is pin success: " + add_res);
This will have a "Is pin success: true" output, but the Projects folder will not show in the file explorer.
I'm developint on win11 21H2.
I have updated my repo with adding unit test, the more i try, the more chance to fail adding files to quick access
The test file might be in the path 'C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent' but not show in the file explorer.
Feeling strange.
It seems that the SHAddToRecentDocs function couldn't add the folder to the Jump List for the Windows Explorer taskbar button. I will discuss this with another engineer to determine if it is a usage issue or a documentation issue.
Folders are added with "pintohome" command :
For example :
using (Process p = new Process())
{
p.StartInfo.FileName = "E:\\toto";
p.StartInfo.Verb = "pintohome";
p.Start();
}
pintohome is something different like what i want to do. If a folder is pinned to home, it will have a pin icon on its folder icon.
If a folder is just a frequent folder, it will not have the pin icon.
I don't see what you mean.
For example, after I pinned "e:\toto", I get a normal icon :
If try using a larger icon to display, then you'll see that they did vary with each other, like what i note in the picture
I don't see how you get folders without this small pin icon : it is for all folders for me (Windows 10 21H1) :
That's why i wonder whether SHAddToRecentDocs be able to add a folder path to the Frequent folders.
If it's not able to do that, why i will have those folder without the small pin icon.
If it should be able to do that, why nothing happens.
I'm able to pin folder or remove folder from it thanks for your excellent work, but this small icon difference really be confusing.
I have made a dll project to test it clean-recent/dll, SHAddToRecentDocs seems not works well for all the time.