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borton1035
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December 18, 2010
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What Happened to "History" in File Open in Acrobat 10?

  • December 18, 2010
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Purchased Acrobat 10.  In Adobe 9, I ejoyed the "History" function in the File/Open area.  I would not recall the name of the file, but, e.g., knew I had opened it within the last 7 days, or last day, or last month.  So, allowing someone to see the "history" or the documents opened within  particular past history period was quite helpful.  Did not see it in Acrobat 10.  i am having a problem that had me at Tech Level 2 and they are now upgrading it to enior Technican.  But, I asked the gentleman to check to see "what happened" to "history".  When he called back as scheduled within one week (very pleasant to work with), he told me that Adobe had simply REMOVED the history capbility in the "open files" part of the program.  I assume what he told me is true.  But, if anyone knows to the contrary, I would appreciate the knowledge of how to find and use "history" in the manner described.  And, why in the world woould they remove such a helpful tool?

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    解決に役立った回答 Dave Merchant

    Usage data indicted that _very_ few people used the Organizer feature, and the amount of work required to ensure it functioned robustly in modern operating environments with distributed storage, SAAS, etc, was not considered practicable - even in Acrobat 9 it was easy to break. If you want more detail on the decisions behind version changes you'll have to ask the product team themselves.

    File>History was generated by the Organizer plugin, so this was removed as a consequence.

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    George_Johnson
    Inspiring
    September 18, 2014

    Adobe just released an update to Acrobat/Reader 11 that includes a new feature that significantly enhances the recently open files list, as described in the release notes: 11.0.09 Planned update, Sept 16, 2014 — Acrobat and Adobe Reader Release Notes

    This brings back a lot of the functionality that was available with the former History feature.

    try67
    Community Expert
    try67Community Expert
    Community Expert
    May 14, 2014

    To anyone interested in returning the File History functionality to Acrobat/Reader, I've just finished developing a tool that does just that. For more information about it you can contact me by PM or email (try6767 [at] gmail.com).

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    Michael BC
    Participant
    November 26, 2013

    I also cannot believe it has been removed. I used the organizer to select and then email multiple PDFs that are retrieved by, and stored in, a reference management program. Now I think my workflow has to be to select to email them one at a time, or save each of such provisional emails as drafts, and then drag them into a single response. This is certainly a step backwards unless there is a feature to select and send, or at least send all currently opened PDFs, in a single email???

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    Stepic7
    Participant
    December 18, 2013

    That's really umbelievable such useful feature has been removed

    A journal keeping record of the work done on the pdf documents open is a must!

    Behind the "History" feature there is all the work done on reading and collecting documents which otherwise must be made manually since certainly the last open documents in Windows doesn't help restoring.

    I don't think I will continue on using next versions of Acrobat, the XI, as it seams it does not have this feature either.

    Can I mount on my computer also an older version of Acrobat, I have the 9th, just for reading and annotations?

    Dave, at least the chance for a plugin?!

    jedi_twitch
    jedi_twitch
    Participant
    September 11, 2013

    I know this post is old, but FYI if you miss Organizer you can use Apple's Preview instead. Go to preferences and choose "Open groups of files in one window" and then open multiple pdfs and they'll all show up in the sidebar of the document. It won't save this way, but at least all the docs are together while you're working.

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    PattyL_CO
    Participant
    December 17, 2012

    At the very least, make the number of Edit->Preferences->General->Documents "Documents in recently used list" larger than 10. I suggest at least 20, list should cascade or otherwise accessible to the last item in the list on a smaller screen. Even better, Acrobat could remember the docs you had open when you shut down your system and bring them back up when the system reboots.

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    BT009
    Participant
    October 25, 2012

    Not having organizer in Acrobat XI is very disapointing.  I delayed upgrading to Acrobat X because of it, and now I subscribed to Creative Cloud, and this is disapointing to not see organizer integrated into the cloud services.  Guess I'll have to change my workflow.

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    Dave Merchant
    Legend
    October 25, 2012

    Organizer won't be returning, and there was no suggestion that Acrobat XI was to have included it.

    gener7
    Community Expert
    gener7Community Expert
    Community Expert
    January 3, 2014

    It's borderline bizzare. How difficult can it be? Doesn't every web browser have this feature?


    Here's an item I posted earlier. Pin your Acrobat icon to the task bar and use its' Jump list.

    Not the same as having the Organizer but it should work.

    I do have somewhat of a handy tip for Windows 7 users. It is the "Jump List."  Simply place the Acrobat X icon into the Windows taskbar. By right-clicking on the Acrobat icon,you will see the 10 most recent documents you have opened.  Not enough?

    Right click on a blank area in the Windows taskbar. Choose Properties,and in the dialog box click on the Start Menu tab,then on the "Customize" button.

    At the bottom of the "Customize Start Menu" dialog is "Number of Recent Items to display in Jump Lists"  The default is 10. You can set it up to 60.

    Usually 30 works for me. All taskbar items will remember the last 30 items accessed,and you can remove or pin items to that list.

    gener7
    Community Expert
    gener7Community Expert
    Community Expert
    September 7, 2012

    I am somewhat disappointed myself because the browser also kept a record of online PDFs that I accessed. I would welcome a function like this to where I can also remove pdfs from the list that I no longer need.

    But I do have somewhat of a handy tip for Windows 7 users. It is the "Jump List."  Simply place the Acrobat X icon into the Windows taskbar. By right-clicking on the Acrobat icon,you will see the 10 most recent documents you have opened.  Not enough?

    Right click on a blank area in the Windows taskbar. Choose Properties,and in the dialog box click on the Start Menu tab,then on the "Customize" button.

    At the bottom of the "Customize Start Menu" dialog is "Number of Recent Items to display in Jump Lists"  The default is 10. You can set it up to 60.

    Usually 30 works for me. All taskbar items will remember the last 30 items accessed,and you can remove or pin items to that list.

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    MikeS-B
    Participant
    September 17, 2012

    Gener7 - That is the single most useful computing tip I've received all year.  Thanks so much!  This looks like it may be even better than Organizer, because that took forever to load.  I signed up for an account on this forum just so I could thank you.  Huge help! 

    gener7
    Community Expert
    gener7Community Expert
    Community Expert
    September 19, 2012

    Thanks for letting me know,Mike! I always wonder if what I typed helped someone or just went into the Cloud Bitbucket.

    And oh yes,welcome to the forums. I hope there will much more good advice to come your way.

    Gene

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    J__Crosetti
    Participant
    September 4, 2012

    I thought it was just me overlooking it or Adobe came up with a new name for the organizer. GONE!?!? This is a major punch in the gut. I relied on it. You just added on about 1/2 hour to my work day to look for old PDFs . . . thanks a lot. The Organizer was a major help for ppl who delt with PDFs daily. You may say that it was not popular or whatever, but the people who used it NEEDED that function!  

    As Dave M. said,"As we have confirmed several times on these forums, Organizer has been removed ....". If you had to re-iterate it several times doesn't that tell you that many people used it?

    BRING IT BACK!!!

    Looks like I'll just work off 9 again...it meant that much.

    Have A Nice Day!

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    Dave Merchant
    Legend
    September 5, 2012

    Offhand I think we've had about 30 people asking about it. Tens of millions of people use the Acrobat X Family.

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    Anonymous
    December 13, 2011

    Likewise, many of us in my organization used the Organizer's "History" function.  It is a disappointment and an inconvenience that you have decided to remove it.  As a customer, I don't remember receiving a survey or query about whether I found this function useful.  So much for customer satisfaction...!

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    TRAXPS
    Participant
    December 16, 2011

    Hi

    Same here, I spent quite a while searching around in the user interface for it. Found a few other useful things that had randomly been located somewhere new.

    Web search brought me here.

    Why is it that new software always goes on about the "great new features" and then doesnt mention the "great old features" it has either deleted or hidden so thouroughly you cant find them.

    I considered this feature extremely useful and am disappointed it isnt there any more. It is even more irritating to read posts telling me I can search for files using the OS--I certainly knew that already and it really is not a "workaround".

    Why not enable some sort of plug in system where things like this can be available for those that want it?

    As a further comment I dont really see why so many other frequently used features had to be put in the irritating side panel.

    Makes me feel good about the MS ribbon... I recall changing to Word 2007 when it first came out, it was definitely easier to find things that in this new Acrobat. So maybe your developers should learn something from that.

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    RenéG-5ha3S1
    Inspiring
    December 1, 2011

    Too bad, once I found out how that feature worked, I started using it immediately to file my fillable PDF so that I can later open a specific PDF and copy and paste a Form Field in a new PDF. It was simple and so useful.

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