how do i delete history in Preview?

It's simple. You were halfway there.

1. When Preview is open, click File > Open Recent > Clear Menu. You'll notice this clears the menu in the app.

2. To finish, and ensure the Dock icon history is cleared, simply quit Preview (Cmd-Q, or File > Quit)

Now reopen Preview. You'll notice now when you right-click that nothing appears in the history. I have used this successfully many times.

This is not a bug, as other posters have mentioned. Lion changed the way the user interacts with recently used files.

I just went (in Preview):

File,

Open Recent,

Clear Menu

and it seems to have worked.

This solution worked for me. In addition to clearing the Recently viewed files, need to remove the app from the Dock to completely remove the history.

this works.

thanks! <3

CLHendricks wrote:

It's simple. You were halfway there.

1. When Preview is open, click File > Open Recent > Clear Menu. You'll notice this clears the menu in the app.

2. To finish, and ensure the Dock icon history is cleared, simply quit Preview (Cmd-Q, or File > Quit)

Now reopen Preview. You'll notice now when you right-click that nothing appears in the history. I have used this successfully many times.

This is not a bug, as other posters have mentioned. Lion changed the way the user interacts with recently used files.

If you really want to remove the history in the app but also in the dock (including the recent thumbnails that appear in App Exposé), this will do the trick. Basically, clear the history but also remove the app from the dock and add it again:

http://www.computer-boffins.ca/2012/08/clearing-recent-items-from-dock/

I have the answer,

you must first close the application ten go through finder and open the app, Open the app and it will show this

once you have done that, go to recents, press shift and highlight the ones that you don't want. and from there just double tap and select move to trash.

And thats how you remove it. ✅

Thanks epst, you are a saviur! unfortunately, looks like thats the only option available.

Every time I want to close the photo, instead of Quit Preview, do file -> Close Selected Image (Shift+Command+W). That photo will not open next time I open Preview.

Quite embarrassingly, it opened some of my personal photos in front of my friends when I was showing my new MBP! There is no way I can set Xee as my default picture viewer? I tried changing the defaut program assignment multile times, but no use. Now, everytime I want to open a snap in front of others, I either have to remember if I had properly closed the snap earlier or open preview privately first to check this. ***** big time.

When will Apple correct this bug?

BelMacs wrote:

Thanks epst, you are a saviur! unfortunately, looks like thats the only option available.

Every time I want to close the photo, instead of Quit Preview, do file -> Close Selected Image (Shift+Command+W). That photo will not open next time I open Preview.

Quite embarrassingly, it opened some of my personal photos in front of my friends when I was showing my new MBP! There is no way I can set Xee as my default picture viewer? I tried changing the defaut program assignment multile times, but no use. Now, everytime I want to open a snap in front of others, I either have to remember if I had properly closed the snap earlier or open preview privately first to check this. ***** big time.

When will Apple correct this bug?

It is not a bug however if you want to report it as such you can at www.apple.com/feedback.

I did not found a way to clear the history of preview.

But i did find a way to stop the resume "features" of preview (stop preview from opening the latest file i had open)

You can find a full explanation here : http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20083707-263/managing-mac-os-x-lions-applic ation-resume-feature/?tag=mncol;title

Quite embarrassingly, it opened some of my personal photos in front of my friends when I was showing my new MBP!

If privacy is important to you, switch to Snow Leopard.

When will Apple correct this bug?

Not a bug.

The best thing about Lion, is that it can often prevent users from deleting previous versions. In the event of a divorce, lawsuit, or government action, the past information could be valuable.

People had too much control over their computers previously.

Switching to Snow leopard, is unfortunately only possible if you did not purchase a new computer. As new mac might not support snow leopard....

Well what's for certain is that this resume function is not yet fully ready... for me it will not be ready until I can have aneasy way to select which application should resume and which should not.

Even if it is not a bug, I still gave a feedback, the more people give a feedback better will be our chance of apple correcting this teething problem ("bug)...

Whith Lion it does feel that we had to much control previously has we do not have any controle any more... or at least not whitout messing with plist file, command line or locking folder :/

Agreed. This is an extremely annoying "feature" that is nothing more than a "bug."

You don't provide the user a clear recent file option then flat out flagrantly ignore that option in the dock icon history.

They need to fix it ASAP. It's rediculous. Just another of the dozens of annoying screw ups you find throughout Lion.

Just today I discivered they removed the ability to do Spotlight searches of highlighted words in Mail by right clicking. You can still do definitions with "Look up" or a Google search but the convenient select Spotlight feature is now missing. Ugggh.

This does not work for me at all.

I followed the steps exactly (I had actually done this previously myself) multiple times with the same result.

And altough my Preview recent files on the tab bar show empty, when I right clcik on the dock Preview's recents are still full ---and always remain so.

I'm running the latest Lion on an iMac with no third party sotware.

1. Close applications

2. System preferences> notice the number of recent items> drop down the box next to applications to NONE.

3. I did the same with documents and servers.

4. uncheck restore windows box.

I know the topic is about Preview, however, in Spotlight, we have found that images we have not saved and only looked at, are showing up via Spotlight. These are images we like but not everyone would like. What we did to eliminate the images from showing up to "anybody" happening to use our MBP was to: Go to Spotlight Preferences. Under the Search Results tab, there are several items checkmarked or not. We unchecked Images, Movies, Webpages, Messages & Chats. These unchecked selections have worked well for us so far as content indexed from these areas do not appear to any casual user of our MBP when doing a Spotlight search and that has made us ... happy.

Again, I know the subject was about Preview but this thread was the closest I have found so far concerning our problem with items showing up in Spotlight that we definately did not want to.