Not sure if this is a Windows or Scriv issue, but thought I’d ask here after Google-ing & a quick search of the manual didn’t produce any useful answers…
I have Scrivener pinned to my Windows 11 taskbar and often right click it to go straight to my WIP via the jump list that appears rather than open Scrivener and click it from the recent projects list. However I’ve noticed it seems to take a long time to get this list populated with new projects. I’ve just started a new one for a November challenge and despite opening it multiple times a day for 7 solid days and it being the top project in the Scrivener recent files drop down, it’s still missing from the jump list. Any ideas how to force Windows/Scrivener to populate this list correctly to show a true list of all recent projects?
All I’m seeing is an option to turn it on and off. Which I tried and this particular project still doesn’t appear, and I’ve lost the other recent files now too. grrr
Because Scrivener for Windows is programmed in Qt not Windows, perhaps? Word is not a good comparison, so what about something like an Affinity app, Luminar or other such cross-platform apps. Does it work with them?
Don’t have those. VLC Media Player works, if that’s anything to go by.
I seem to recall Scrivener working, like the OP pointed out. Time will tell, since switching the jump lists off and on deleted the jump list history, yet the list delete I suggested miraculously brought back whole list just by accessing one file per app.
Excel and Word have both repopulated their lists after I opened a file in each, thanks for that tip!
Spotify and Chrome are both fine too. Have happily repopulated themselves just by using them.
Scrivener is still very empty, aside from the one older project I had pinned.
I’m happy to say I’ve found a way to get Jump Lists working with Scrivener on Windows.
Once in Scrivener. Open one of your projects with File > Open, then open the relevant project folder and finally the SCRIVX project file.
You’ll find your Jump List on your Taskbar populates with this project’s name. Repeat for all projects you want in your list. Somewhere along the line you’ll need to close your first project and open it again this way to get it in the list.
Going forward, the last project you work on will be at the top of the list, so playing around to achieve an alphabetical listing will only exist as long as your topmost project remains your last worked on project—practically rarely.
I’ve restarted my machine, switched it on and off and installed a Windows update since, and the Scrivener Jump List remains in place.
Sadly, my File Manager is now flooded with a Recent-lists from all my apps, as Jump Lists are connected to Recent—which I regard as a cluttered interface. Can’t win them all.
The Windows 11 Canary insider channel has begun implementing Jump Lists to Start Menu items, aside from the Taskbar icons. Not everything they experiment with is carried over to the standard releases, but to me this seems like a logical move and should be a relatively easy plug in of existing code.
The Microsoft process is Canary channel, Developer channel, Beta channel, then to the next major Windows feature update after this October’s 24H2 release.
