Jump Lists misbehaving with OneDrive/Sharepoint
October 25, 2018 2:30 PM Subscribe
My workplace recently upgraded to Office 2016/365, including OneDrive/Sharepoint syncing. I need to be able to access a number of these synced files quickly and multiple times a day, and until now, I have done so by pinning them to the taskbar (i.e., via the Jump List feature). After the upgrade, I noticed that that whenever I opened a pinned file, it disappeared from the Jump List -- making pinning essentially useless, and causing me a week's worth of confusion (at first) and frustration (now). I'm looking for a better solution than the vaguely ridiculous workaround I devised this afternoon.
After much digging around this week, I finally determined that this problem relates specifically to network drives -- i.e., OneDrive/Sharepoint -- and I have finally able to solve this problem (sort of) as follows:
- In the taskbar properties, enabling "Store and display recently opened items in the Start menu and taskbar" setting
- Opening the file I wanted to pin, which results in it showing up in the newly enabled list of Recent files
- Clicking the "Pin to list" button for the Recent file
- The file no longer disappears from the Jump List when I open it; success!
- Disable the "Store and display recently opened items in the Start menu and taskbar" setting, because (illusion of) privacy
That's all well and good, but I very much do not want to have Recent files showing on a day-to-day basis (I am regularly demoing things for colleagues via screen-sharing, and anyway it's too cluttered with all that extra nonsense), nor do I want to have to toggle this feature every time I need to pin a new file. Is there a way to pin OneDrive/Sharepoint-based files that doesn't involve toggling this setting? Please tell me there is a better way.
Further detail, in case it helps clarify: When I pin the file to the Jump List by dragging and dropping it, windows registers the C:\ location. However, when I do it via the new method above, it registers the Sharepoint URL (which I can see when I hover over the filename). I'm using Windows 7, I do not have admin privileges , and IT is unhelpful on the very best of days, so this unfortunately limits what solutions might be available to me.
After much digging around this week, I finally determined that this problem relates specifically to network drives -- i.e., OneDrive/Sharepoint -- and I have finally able to solve this problem (sort of) as follows:
- In the taskbar properties, enabling "Store and display recently opened items in the Start menu and taskbar" setting
- Opening the file I wanted to pin, which results in it showing up in the newly enabled list of Recent files
- Clicking the "Pin to list" button for the Recent file
- The file no longer disappears from the Jump List when I open it; success!
- Disable the "Store and display recently opened items in the Start menu and taskbar" setting, because (illusion of) privacy
That's all well and good, but I very much do not want to have Recent files showing on a day-to-day basis (I am regularly demoing things for colleagues via screen-sharing, and anyway it's too cluttered with all that extra nonsense), nor do I want to have to toggle this feature every time I need to pin a new file. Is there a way to pin OneDrive/Sharepoint-based files that doesn't involve toggling this setting? Please tell me there is a better way.
Further detail, in case it helps clarify: When I pin the file to the Jump List by dragging and dropping it, windows registers the C:\ location. However, when I do it via the new method above, it registers the Sharepoint URL (which I can see when I hover over the filename). I'm using Windows 7, I do not have admin privileges , and IT is unhelpful on the very best of days, so this unfortunately limits what solutions might be available to me.
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Alternatively, going the route of setting up autohotkey with quick fire shortcuts to your files might be an option. That has a portable version so you wouldn't need admin rights to run that.
posted by msbutah at 7:05 PM on October 25, 2018