Deleting 'Recent Places'

Also, is there a way to turn off Recent Folders, under Finder Menu bar/Go/Recent Folders?

Open the System Preferences from the Dock and select the Appearance tab.

In Pages, under Finder Menu bar/File/Open, a document-selection window opens. At the top of the window is a location-selection drop-menu. In that menu there's a choice named Recent Places. How do I delete the Recent Places list?

Also, is there a way to turn off Recent Folders, under Finder Menu bar/Go/Recent Folders?

Both of them rely on the same database.

We may clear them from the Finder's menu item:
menuBar > Go > Recent Folders > Clear Menu

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE dimanche 28 décembre 2008 16:23:06)

You are right and I wasn't completely wrong.

The list of recent places is stored in a global file but not in the one cleaned by the process which I described.

Here is a way to clean the 'Recent Places" list.

Download the free plist editor named "Pref Setter"
from:
http://www.nightproductions.net/prefsetter.html


run this short script:

--\[SCRIPT]
set p2p to path to preferences folder from user domain as text

tell application "Pref Setter" to open file (p2p & ".GlobalPreferences.plist")
--[/SCRIPT]

It will open the hidden plist storing the list.

You will get something like:



Select the list's item and press delete.
You will get:



click "Delete"
close the window
click Save

That's all folks.

Of course, for those which already installed the Developer tools, no need to use 'Pref Setter'.

Replace "Pref Setter" by "Property List Editor" in the script and apply the same protocol.

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE lundi 29 décembre 2008 18:25:40)

Don't delete them, they store important datas.



The one containing the list of Recent Places is the one in our User Domain (the larger one).

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mardi 30 décembre 2008 11:29:05)

What is the problem with the Pref Setter program?
The download brings "Pref Setter.zip" on my Desktop.
Double click it to expand it as "Pref Setter"
Then run the script.

--\[SCRIPT]
set p2p to path to preferences folder from user domain as text

tell application "Pref Setter" to open file (p2p & ".GlobalPreferences.plist")
--[/SCRIPT]

Navigate to reach the "NSNavRecentPlaces" Key
Click the small triangle on the left of the key to display the list of strings
then click Item 1
press the shift key and click the lower Item (for me it was Item 5) to select the entire list.
Then press the Delete key (or select the menu item "Edit > Delete")

I will be back tomorrow.

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mardi 30 décembre 2008 21:11:24)

Yvan
Great work explaining this issue and the solution. Appreciate your effort. I had gone through a few apple geniuses as well as apple tech support and no one had a clue as to how to clear recent places
Thanks
George

Thanks for the feedback.

Nobody knows everything and sometime we know something one day and forget it some days after. 😉

Last week I wrote that as far as I knew there is no way to use SUMIF with a condition of the kind <=cellRef.

Look what I wrote in

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7185825 (11 mai 2008)
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6111945 (15 dec 2007)

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE jeudi 19 février 2009 11:39:08)