Hello Craig, As far as I know, you can’t do this. It did it when iCloud Drive was in use because the Documents folder was in iCloud Drive, ready to be shared with other devices. However, in the File menu, you can find Recents which will offer you the documents you’ve been working on lately. Cheers,
Anne > On 28 Jul 2019, at 06:03, Craig Werner <coffeeb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, everyone. > > When I first got my Mac, and even when I briefly experimented with > iCloud Drive, I could have sworn that when I opened TextEdit, it > displayed the files listed in the "Documents" folder. Of course, the > option to open a new document with "Command-N" was also visible. > Recently, I disabled iCloud Drive, and now, TextEdit opens directly in > an untitled document. In other words, the "Documents" folder contents > are not immediately displayed. An Apple Accessibility representative > told me TextEdit is not supposed to show all the documents on opening, > and he knows of no way to enable this behavior. I can certainly live > with the way it is behaving now, but can anyone shed light on this > question? It is as if TextEdit has forgotten the path to the folder > now that it has been restored to local,that is, non-iCloud Drive, > use. > > Thank you. > > Craig > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: > mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/CAPaLqzhv0VFsHY%3Dajrvxq5AkmRB4%3DiBAbVYcZPYMGN6woKe9%2Bg%40mail.gmail.com. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/6C933244-5E99-4F07-BAD2-43386531B6B8%40anarchie.org.uk.
