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In Lion, when you right-click (Cntrl+click) on an app icon in the dock (an app not running), one of the menu choices is "Show Recents". When I choose it, my open apps and windows go away, desktop icons disappear, and my desktop dims. What is this? What is supposed to happen? Can't find anything about it.
Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.7), Dual Core 2.66 Xeon
It shows recently open docments.
Rgeards,
Colin R.
PS Here it is when I Show Recents on the Pages icon in the Dock:
Thanks, Colin. That's exactly what I was expecting but no recents show up even if there are supposed to be. There's something funny going on with my system then. I better do some maintenance and troubleshooting.
Bump one year later...
I just bought a new MBA and this is my first experience with Lion. I have the same problem as the OP. Is there a fix for this?
I am running into the same issue. Some programs it works, some it doesn't. It works perfect for Numbers, but not Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Safari, etc...
Any help would be appreciated.
Bump! Two years on! I just got a Mac and running Office 2011 and I am having the same problem. I have been opening a lot of docuents but nothing is showing on recents...
Bump another year later. An application has to support this feature to show anything. Only built in apps and a select few actually support this feature.
Not necessarily. It works fine on my MacBook Air, but on my iMac, with exactly the same system set up, it doesn't. There *is* something odd going on.
MST
Years on and no answers. Lovley.
I'm trying to figure out how to clear it after having some private photos show up when accidentally hitting it during a presentation.
My hopes aren't high. They'll probably remain stuck there for another year or so.
Typical of Apple's sloppy developer work.
Another strange, underdeveloped app with not a scant of documentation.
Thanks Apple for wasting more of your users productivity.
This is a user-to-user forum. You are not talking to Apple.
Try Mac OS X Feedback
I'm fully aware I'm not talking to Apple and that these forums are not properly used by Apple to address their myriad of fixable problems.
If so, they might actually be much more aware and capable of solving, fixing or at the very least addressing them so their customers time is not squandered fishing for answers in these endless forums.
How a company with such wealth can have so many unfixed and unaddressed software problems has flummoxed me for decades.
Again,
I'm trying to figure out how to clear the items that show up in 'Show Recents' in Preview after having some private photos show up when accidentally hitting the feature during a presentation.
And again, my hopes are far from high as these same old images, despite many more recent ones I have opened remain stuck in this mystery cue...
and I'm guessing will likely remain stuck for some time.
System Preferences -> General -> Recent Items: None
Then from an Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal session
killall Dock
-OR-
Logout/Login
-OR-
Reboot the Mac
Then when you Control-Click on Preview in the Dock you do not see any recent items listed in the pop-up,
And if you click on the "Show Recents" nothing appears on the desktop.
This happens both right after restarting the Dock, as well as after using Preview to open any documents.
What is "Show Recents" supposed to do?
