Where does WhizFolders keep my notes?

June 24, 2006 (27)

in Document Locations

When you create a new document with WhizFolders, it asks you to select a location and a name. By default, it selects the location as My Documents as per Microsoft guidelines.

What does this mean? This means that you have complete control over where you create your WhizFolder documents. The main window of WhizFolders simply lists the documents that you opened in the past. This is for your convenience so that you can reopen a document quickly from the main list. This does not mean that WhizFolders keeps these document files inside itself, in some database.

You must understand that all these WhizFolder documents are in your file system and have the file type or extension as .wzfolder. Just open Windows Explorer and see My Documents, unless you created these documents in some other folder. You will see all those WhizFolder document files in the explorer. You can even open them from the Explorer by double-clicking on them.

The new version also shows locations of the documents in the main window list. This makes it easier to know where they are. In the old version, you could see the location when you moved the mouse cursor over a document name in the list. Or, you can open that document and the location is shown above the topic list.

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