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Recent documents -> Open Containing opens Microsoft\Windows\Recent #2581

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@DietmarSchwertberger

Describe the bug

The recent version 4.4.202 does open the Windows Recent folder instead of the folder containing an opened file.

E.g.
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With my previous version 4.4.196 things did work as expected: on "Open file location" an explorer window for "C:\Users[username]\AppData\Local\OpenShell" was opened.

With 4.4.202 the folder containing the shortcuts is opened instead ("C:\Users[username]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent").

Area of issue

Start menu

To reproduce

  1. Have special item "Recent documents" set to "Display as menu"
  2. Go to menu item "Recent documents"
  3. do a right mouse click on one of the contained elements, e.g. a text file
  4. select "Open file location" (in MenuCommands.cpp it's command 'opencontaining')
  5. The wrong folder opens.

Expected behavior

Open the folder containing the text file, not the folder containing the .lnk files pointing to the document files.

Open-Shell version

4.4.202
(just tested some releases and 4.4.201 was still OK, only 202 shows the bug)

Windows version

Windows 11 25H2

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  1. DietmarSchwertberger commented on Nov 8, 2026

    @DietmarSchwertberger
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    @YellowNest
    This seems to be caused by commit 1e7a52a / PR #2546

  2. DietmarSchwertberger commented on Nov 8, 2026

    @DietmarSchwertberger
    Author

    YellowNest@aaa8c63 seems to fix it.

  3. DietmarSchwertberger commented on Nov 8, 2026

    @DietmarSchwertberger
    Author

    Seems to be more or less a duplicate of / the same root cause as #2564

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