topic Re: Recently used files (drop down menu under File tab) in SAS Enterprise Guide

Recently used files (drop down menu under File tab)

PoulRavn — Mon, 15 Feb 2016 12:45:35 GMT

Hi, in EG 6.1 (and also SAS JMP 11) I have come to rely on the recently used file list. In JMP11 it can be very long (I have not found the limit), but in EG the number of entries has to be set in 'properties' and appears to be limited. I tried to set it at maximun (=12 ?).

Now, I would like to remove entries (moved a project to another folder, but the entry stays). Can I edit the list somewhere? Is it in the registry as in SAS JMP? Or just a flat file, that I might edit?

Regards

Poul Ravn Sørensen

Re: Recently used files (drop down menu under File tab)

TomKari — Mon, 15 Feb 2016 13:25:25 GMT

I removed a couple of entries from

C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\SAS\EnterpriseGuide\6.1\mru.config

using Notepad, and it seemed to work.

Tom

Re: Recently used files (drop down menu under File tab)

PoulRavn — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 08:39:12 GMT

Hi Tom, thanks for directing me to this file. I opened it and tried to remove an entry. But somehow I must have misunderstood the start/end signalling of the XML coding, because EG 6.1 then read it falsely, in the way that it read far fewer entries than are in the file. I suspect I have not made the right 'cut'.

Could you please provide a little bit of detail on how to select en 'entry'? From where to where (included) should I delete?

Regards

Poul

Re: Recently used files (drop down menu under File tab)

TomKari — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 14:59:32 GMT

This is what the first 30 lines of my mru.config look like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><MRU><DNA><DNA>
<Type>LocalFile</Type>
<Name>F1.egp</Name>
<Version>1</Version>
<Assembly />
<Factory />
<FullPath>C:\Users\Username\SAS\F1.egp</FullPath>
</DNA></DNA><DNA><DNA>
<Type>LocalFile</Type>
<Name>F2.egp</Name>
<Version>1</Version>
<Assembly />
<Factory />
<FullPath>C:\Users\Username\SAS\F2.egp</FullPath>
</DNA></DNA><DNA><DNA>
<Type>LocalFile</Type>
<Name>F3.egp</Name>
<Version>1</Version>
<Assembly />
<Factory />
<FullPath>C:\Users\Username\SAS\F3.egp</FullPath>
</DNA></DNA><DNA><DNA>
<Type>LocalFile</Type>
<Name>F4.egp</Name>
<Version>1</Version>
<Assembly />
<Factory />
<FullPath>C:\Users\Username\SAS\F4.egp</FullPath>
</DNA></DNA><DNA><DNA>
<Type>LocalFile</Type>
<Name>F5.egp</Name>

I left the first line alone, up to the end of the <MRU> tag. I then removed entries starting with the <DNA> tag, and ending with the </DNA> tag. Note that immediately following the </DNA> tag is the next <DNA> tag.

When I treat the first two entries this way, they disappear from my “previous files” list.
Good luck,
Tom