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Finding Recent documents for another user Windows 10.

Anonymous — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 14:47:30 GMT

I am using Inventor professional 2020 on windows 10 V1909 that I have full Admin rights to.

Had a coworker who left the job and didn't leave a note where his recent projects were stored.

I was hoping there was a file I could see their recent history of open files... I cannot sign in as his username as it is a windows domain account.

thanks in advance.

Re: Finding Recent documents for another user Windows 10.

Gabriel_Watson — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 15:07:29 GMT

Try this:
https://blogs.rand.com/support/2016/06/inventor-home-tab-remove-items-from-the-recent-documents-list.html

But use "HKEY_USERS\<anySID>" while signed on as an admin, instead of the below "\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\":

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Autodesk\Inventor\RegistryVersion24.0\Recent File List

(version 24.0 above is for Inventor 2020 I believe... it varies depending on your Inventor version)

Re: Finding Recent documents for another user Windows 10.

Anonymous — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 19:04:31 GMT

I tried Remotely and I could not see their user SID listed in the registry...

I'll have to try again later as local admin.

I will report back either way! Thanks.

Re: Finding Recent documents for another user Windows 10.

SharkDesign — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 20:24:59 GMT

I'm assuming you use a different project file for each project?

Can you just search for IPJ files on the network drive where all your work is stored and then filter them by date?

Re: Finding Recent documents for another user Windows 10.

Anonymous — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 16:29:09 GMT

I tried as local admin and wasn't able to see the SID listed in the registry. So I will have to revert to filter by *.ipj files.

I was hoping for a magnet to help me find my "needle in a hay stack"