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Remove .DST's from Recent Documents list

Jeff_M — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 16:42:06 GMT

Attached is a zip file with a standalone program to aid in cleaning up the Recent Documents list for all flavors of AutoCAD, 2009-2013.

It's pretty self explanatory, just be sure to run it with no sessions of AutoCAD, or vertical products, running. It should refuse to run if it sees any Acad.exe application in the running tasks list. Once the dialog opens it will show you all of the Autocad related products you have installed, select one and it will fill in the first list of recent documents. Then select a profile for that product and the second list will populate with the SSM related recent documents saved for that profile. You can then select any item from either list, if the same DST filename exists in both lists it will automatically select them both. Use the standard selection methods to select more than one (shift-click, control-click, window).

Be sure to Unblock, if needed, the zip file before extracting the exe file. (Check the file properties)

If you find it useful, or if you have any problems with this, please let me know at jeffm AT quuxsoft DOT com

Re: Remove .DST's from Recent Documents list

rkmcswain — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 12:25:39 GMT

Works as advertised. Thanks for sharing.

Now that it's clean, I'll can keep an eye on how it adds and tracks recent dwg and dst files.

Re: Remove .DST's from Recent Documents list

Lisa_Pohlmeyer — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 12:39:20 GMT

Awesome, awesome, awesome! Thank you!

Re: Remove .DST's from Recent Documents list

jmayo-EE — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 14:40:13 GMT

Very nice of you Jeff. Thanks a bunch.

Re: Remove .DST's from Recent Documents list

Jeff_M — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:18:28 GMT

I'm glad a few of you have found it useful!

Re: Remove .DST's from Recent Documents list

troma — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 20:55:19 GMT

Is this just a one-time cleanup tool or does it also prevent new additions to the list?

Thanks.

Re: Remove .DST's from Recent Documents list

Jeff_M — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 21:17:55 GMT

It does not prevent them from being added. Run it as often as you like to cleanup the list(s).

Re: Remove .DST's from Recent Documents list

troma — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:57:35 GMT

Very cool, thanks!

Re: Remove .DST's from Recent Documents list

tcorey — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 15:13:06 GMT

Jeff, all of us who participate here are very lucky to have you around. Thanks for sharing this and for your on-going help.

Tim

Re: Remove .DST's from Recent Documents list

jmayo-EE — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 15:23:03 GMT

Absolutely.

Re: Remove .DST's from Recent Documents list

rkmcswain — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:54:44 GMT

Jeff -

I would like to add my thanks to you for this tool also.

Unfortuntely, it just defies logic that we even have a need for such tools though.

Why can't Autodesk just FIX this?

Re: Remove .DST's from Recent Documents list

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 23:23:12 GMT

Hi guys,

I downloaded and ran the tool on my PC, but when I go to run on another PC it fails to launch and displays a dialogue box saying "AutoCAD Recent Documents Manager has Stopped working - Windows is checking for a solution to the problem...."

Has anyone else come across this error? Any suggestions how to get around it?

By the way, we are all running the same PC's. Z400's with W7 x64.

Re: Remove .DST's from Recent Documents list

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:37:40 GMT

I too got this message trying to open the program. I also have Win7/64. If there is a way to open this program I would love to know it. I use the sheet set manager all the time and my list of recently open docs does not have a single dwg on it!!!

Re: Remove .DST's from Recent Documents list

Jeff_M — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 19:13:27 GMT

Make sure to unblock the zip file before exttqcting the dll by looking at the zip's properties. Also, the dll needs to be run from a local drive, not over the network.

Re: Remove .DST's from Recent Documents list

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 19:22:42 GMT

I've unblocked and running locally but with no luck. Any other suggestions would be appreciated.

Re: Remove .DST's from Recent Documents list

Jeff_M — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 19:45:24 GMT

There may be an issue if you have anther Autodesk product installed which has not had any drawing opened yet. I thought I'd addressed that but it may still be an issue. I'm at Autodesk University right now so can't offer much more than that.

Re: Remove .DST's from Recent Documents list

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 19:48:01 GMT

Jeff, Indeed I have autodesk products on board that I've never opened. I'll try your suggestion and will post back in the future. Enjoy AU! Thank you. Gary A. Tepe gt@keg-engineering.com Cad Operator - Structural Engineering Design KARINS ENGINEERING GROUP Sarasota, St. Petersburg, Naples/Fort Myers, Fort Lauderdale Voice: (866) 927-8525; HQ Fax: (941) 927-8075

Re: Remove .DST's from Recent Documents list

Jeff_M — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 18:50:22 GMT

OK, I did make some changes to the code after the one I posted to this thread. I posted it elsewhere and forgot to add it here. So here is the updated program, and should be the one that works even when it encounters uninitailized Autocad programs & profiles.

Hopefully this solves the errors reported above.

Re: Remove .DST's from Recent Documents list

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 19:58:44 GMT

Jeff - just tried the new tool and an extra message "a problem locating initialized autodesk applications was encountered exiting" comes up before the other message of the program has stopped running. So still no luck for me.

Re: Remove .DST's from Recent Documents list

Jeff_M — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 22:41:38 GMT

Ok, I will try to track that down when I return from AU. What other autdeak products do you have installed?