# RW 8.1.6 - Show Projects Window/Recents files issues **URL:** \ **Category:** RapidWeaver Classic\ **Created:** [February 27, 2019, 3:11pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/rw-8-1-6-show-projects-window-recents-files-issues/25469 "2019-02-27T15:11:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![studiozellige](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/studiozellige/32/16179_2.png) [@studiozellige](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/studiozellige)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 3:11pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/rw-8-1-6-show-projects-window-recents-files-issues/25469/1 "2019-02-27T15:11:15Z")
Hello, as with previous versions of RW, the working files of RW are not referenced in the “Open recent” menu, nor in the window “Welcome to RapidWeaver” (Show Projects Window). Is this a limitation imposed by the system (as far as I am concerned, Mojave 10.14.3)? … **TIP** : I took a look at the RW application resources: _HD Macintosh -\> Applications -\> RapidWeaver 8 -\> Contents -\> Resources -\> Templates_ I found the 5 templates provided with the application: _Artful, Engineer, Mountains, Future and Climate_. If we delete these 5 files, they do not appear anymore in the “Welcome to RW - Examples” window. **Question** : If I set the alias of one of my RW files in this Templates folder, why does RW send me an error message: “Unsaved RapidWeaver 8 Document 4” could not be released because RapidWeaver 8 can not open files in the " Finder Document “format.”? … Could the developers of RW not make this manipulation possible for our greater comfort? … Since the window “Welcome to RW” ALWAYS opens on the “Examples” **(I do not need any examples)**, and never on “Recent” **(I need more quick access to my own files)**, I would find it very convenient to find something to launch all my working files RW … What do you think ?.. : Wink: [edit]This manipulation does not work, whether with an alias or with a symbolic link: what a pity![/edit] ---
**Author:** ![DaveFox](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/davefox/32/129_2.png) [@DaveFox](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/DaveFox)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 3:22pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/rw-8-1-6-show-projects-window-recents-files-issues/25469/2 "2019-02-27T15:22:11Z")
> [@studiozellige](#): > > I would find it very convenient to find something to launch all my working files RW … Just make an alias and add it to your Dock (all the regular daily / weekly sites I need access to are in my dock as per pic) ![Screen%20Shot](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realmacsoftware1/original/2X/f/fbf372822e640e7b460fb3aa2495fa83ff4a875d.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![studiozellige](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/studiozellige/32/16179_2.png) [@studiozellige](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/studiozellige)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 3:30pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/rw-8-1-6-show-projects-window-recents-files-issues/25469/3 "2019-02-27T15:30:54Z")
Hello, yes, I do the same thing as you … and as the files are all visually identical in the Dock (as on your screenshot), I customize with a different icon … which is not very convenient… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![zeebe](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/zeebe/32/22007_2.png) [@zeebe](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/zeebe)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 11:09pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/rw-8-1-6-show-projects-window-recents-files-issues/25469/4 "2019-02-27T23:09:34Z")
Why not make a folder for your doc and put them in there. ---
**Author:** ![PaulRussam](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/paulrussam/32/198_2.png) [@PaulRussam](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/PaulRussam)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 11:42pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/rw-8-1-6-show-projects-window-recents-files-issues/25469/5 "2019-02-27T23:42:11Z")
If you create a std folder somewhere sensible and fill it with aliases of the docs you can then pin that folder to your dock. I have my most used apps in the dock and then folders with aliases of other apps related to a subject, here’s a shot of my ‘web’ apps dock folder open: [![CloudApp](https://f.v1.n0.cdn.getcloudapp.com/items/1I0q3s2B0w2P171Q1E0e/Image%202019-02-27%20at%2011.38.27%20pm.png "Image 2019-02-27 at 11.38.27 pm") ](https://cl.ly/p9ugwqxP) ---
**Author:** ![peppermint](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/peppermint/32/218_2.png) [@peppermint](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/peppermint)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2019, 1:56am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/rw-8-1-6-show-projects-window-recents-files-issues/25469/6 "2019-02-28T01:56:16Z")
XMenu ([https://www.devontechnologies.com/download/products.html](https://www.devontechnologies.com/download/products.html)) is also a very useful tool (free) ---
**Author:** ![studiozellige](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/studiozellige/32/16179_2.png) [@studiozellige](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/studiozellige)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2019, 12:01pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/rw-8-1-6-show-projects-window-recents-files-issues/25469/7 "2019-02-28T12:01:55Z")
Hello and thank you all for all your contributions (already known and sometimes implemented): they correspond to various launcher techniques. But my post was mainly a question to know if you had, you, access to your files via the RW application itself, either by the menu, or by the window “Welcome to RW”: is it the case on your machines? … And then, I also wanted to absolutely find a utility or a hack to these two functions that do not work (have they already worked? …) on my iMac …: neutral\_face: ---
**Author:** ![PaulRussam](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/paulrussam/32/198_2.png) [@PaulRussam](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/PaulRussam)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2019, 1:56pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/rw-8-1-6-show-projects-window-recents-files-issues/25469/8 "2019-02-28T13:56:27Z")
A quick search here for the word ‘recent’ would have netted you a number of replies, here’s what I wrote last time something similar was asked: [Rapidweaver 8 - no "recent files" view](http://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/rapidweaver-8-no-recent-files-view/24732/3) and another reply for 2017: [Updated to 7.2.1 - Project has vanished](http://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/updated-to-7-2-1-project-has-vanished/11728/14) and another [RapidWeaver 8.1 Final Candidate 2 (Build 20502b)](http://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/rapidweaver-8-1-final-candidate-2-build-20502b/23788/18) ---
**Author:** ![studiozellige](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/studiozellige/32/16179_2.png) [@studiozellige](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/studiozellige)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2019, 2:10pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/rw-8-1-6-show-projects-window-recents-files-issues/25469/9 "2019-02-28T14:10:45Z")
Thank you so much. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/system/32/25301_2.png) [@system](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2019, 12:10am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/rw-8-1-6-show-projects-window-recents-files-issues/25469/10 "2019-03-31T00:10:46Z")
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