how do i delete history in Preview?

I just went (in Preview):

File,

Open Recent,

Clear Menu

and it seems to have worked.

Hello.

It doesnt work for me. I have a brand new macbook pro with retina display and the pictures i open with preview i delete them. Howevere when i click righ on preview it still shows the old pictures and i cant clear that. Please help me.

Thank you Alberto. However this solution it doesnt work for Mountain Lion. on file open recent ... nothing it shows but when i click right on the program it shows pictures wich i have deleted from my computer.

Thanks. When File>Open Recent>Clear Menu does not clear it all, Quitting the Preview app, removing app from the dock, then adding it back to the dock works. Now when I show all application windows or right click on Preview in the dock, the recent history is all clear.

I would like to know how you do this as well.

Thanks.

Steve

No, "clear menu" in "open recent" does not reset the history.

You can delete the image, but that deletes it from the history and the disk.

This is a bug.

Images can be cleared from history from the menu with File -> Close selected image.

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 :/

Try JView, it is free. http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/7338/jview

On a jpg file right click and select get info then go to open with and choose JView and then make it the default app for all jpgs.

There's a way to shut Resume off, in System Preferences -> General -> uncheck "Restore windows"

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.