project gallery help!

[Gaura]

I need help. Is there a way to delete recent items in the project
gallery? Specifically, can I clear the history for "today?" If you
have any suggestions, please let me know!

Thanks for your help.

 

[CyberTaz]

Hi Gaura -

Unfortunately there seems to be no way to regulate that list other than
turning it off completely or setting the number of entries. At least that's
what I recall from a previous thread on this same issue... In fact, it was
your thread started 12/1.

 

[Elliott Roper]

Hi Gaura -

Unfortunately there seems to be no way to regulate that list other than
turning it off completely or setting the number of entries. At least that's
what I recall from a previous thread on this same issue... In fact, it was
your thread started 12/1.

I had a look without success too. It seems to be sub-optimal for
privacy. Anybody wanting to snoop can wind the number of entries back
up to silly numbers and they are still there.

OK, if you took the files away or encrypted them, all they could get
would be the names, but even that can be commercially sensitive.

On a couple of contracts I have been able to cut a much better deal
than I thought I could because the other guy's lawyers left lots of
cruft in the Word doc. On another document I was given to quote on, the
pathname to the file on the originating consultant's lappy spilt a big
secret that he'd clearly spent days in obfuscating. I don't think the
lift (elevator) had chucked him out into the street before we all knew
a very interesting commercial secret worth a megabuck or so to an
ungodly investor. You will be pleased to learn we were good guys and
kept shtum.


I know this is different, but it is one more scary thing to worry about
when managing your backups, or walking down a dark street with your
lappy.

Microsoft really should look harder at security and privacy in the next
version.

I guess that stuff is being held in ~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/..
in that database thingy, because MS are sure as hell not putting it
where the Mac programming guidelines say they should. Mine's 18MB!! It
was too daunting to eyeball it with a hex editor.

I'm with Gaura, I'd sure like a way to clear that 'recent' stuff away
for good.

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi,

Open the Project Gallery
Click on the Customize tab
Adjust the number of recently remembered files down to as low as 1.

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

I need help. Is there a way to delete recent items in the project
gallery? Specifically, can I clear the history for "today?" If you
have any suggestions, please let me know!

Thanks for your help.

--
Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

MVPs are not Microsoft Employees
MVP info

 

[Clive Huggan]

Or you could remove Project Gallery from the File menu, Gaura.

Word Help => "Add or remove buttons, menus, and commands".

Cheers,

Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
(My time zone is 5-11 hours different from the US and Europe, so my
follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed)
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[CyberTaz]

I had a look without success too. It seems to be sub-optimal for
privacy. Anybody wanting to snoop can wind the number of entries back
up to silly numbers and they are still there.

OK, if you took the files away or encrypted them, all they could get
would be the names, but even that can be commercially sensitive.

On a couple of contracts I have been able to cut a much better deal
than I thought I could because the other guy's lawyers left lots of
cruft in the Word doc. On another document I was given to quote on, the
pathname to the file on the originating consultant's lappy spilt a big
secret that he'd clearly spent days in obfuscating. I don't think the
lift (elevator) had chucked him out into the street before we all knew
a very interesting commercial secret worth a megabuck or so to an
ungodly investor. You will be pleased to learn we were good guys and
kept shtum.


I know this is different, but it is one more scary thing to worry about
when managing your backups, or walking down a dark street with your
lappy.

Microsoft really should look harder at security and privacy in the next
version.

I guess that stuff is being held in ~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/..
in that database thingy, because MS are sure as hell not putting it
where the Mac programming guidelines say they should. Mine's 18MB!! It
was too daunting to eyeball it with a hex editor.

I'm with Gaura, I'd sure like a way to clear that 'recent' stuff away
for good.

Hi Elliott -

I fully agree with every point - I imagine MS assumes that logging out is
sufficient from a security standpoint, as each user's content in Recent is
maintained separately.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Beth Rosengard]

Every once in a while, it's worth compacting your database (in Entourage) to
clean it out. I usually do it after dumping a few thousand old sent and
deleted messages (I don't like to run schedules for these things - YMMV).

You undoubtedly know this already, Elliott, but for anyone who doesn't ...

If you delete an Entourage email, for example, and then clear it from your
Deleted Items folder, you will no longer have access to it ... but it is not
truly gone from your database and could possibly be recovered. What happens
is that the space occupied by that deleted email is available to be written
over and as new data comes in, all the "empty" spaces will eventually
disappear. That could take a while and in the meantime the old data, which
is still there, could possibly be recovered.

Only two actions AFAIK actually wipe out deleted items: 1) being written
over (as above) and 2) compacting the database.

I don't know to what extent non-Entourage Office data is stored in the
database: certainly everything to do with the Office Address Book is.
Somehow I doubt that Project Gallery info would be there; it seems more
likely it would be in a cache somewhere or other.

My suggestion to Gaura would be to click the Send Feedback link on the Word
Help menu and send a feature request to Microsoft!

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Beth Rosengard
MacOffice MVP

Mac Word FAQ: <http://word.mvps.org/Mac/WordMacHome.html>
My Site: <http://www.bethrosengard.com>

 

[Gaura]

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like there's much of a solution, is
there? Nevertheless, I appreciate all your help. Thank you for your
thorough responses.

Gaura