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recent items lists empty

Hello


In more and more apps (Preview, TextEdit, Finder, InDesign … ), the recent items (or open recent … ) lists keep showing as empty. Sometimes a restart fixes that, sometimes it does not. I read that having ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.recentitems.plist created anew might help, but that doesn’t seem to apply to El Capitan (as there is no such file on my mac).


Any idea?


Thanks!

Mac Pro, OS X 10.11

Posted on Jun 20, 2022 5:31 AM

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Posted on Jun 20, 2022 10:57 AM

Hi,


Try booting into Safe Mode: How to use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support and see if the issue persists there.

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recent items lists empty

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