How can I delete FaceTime recent calls on OS X Yosemite?

Thank you very much!!!

I am using the latest: OS X El Capitan 10.11.2. It does not appear that Apple has addressed this in providing a simple "delete all recent" option. Right-clicking did nothing and I had to delete (using the 'delete' keyboard option) all one-at-a-time, manually. Really, Apple???

I'm also using 10.11.2, and it took about 12 times of right-clicking on that tiny space beneath the search box and selecting "Remove All Recents" before my list was totally emptied. A few times, FaceTime went to 100% CPU and Console reported spin dumps being created. It seems like if you have a really large list, it isn't able to really remove all entries. That is probably why the control is hidden from view, it doesn't really work as Apple intended, yet.

Close FaceTime Application

Open Finder > Go > Go to folder :

~/Library/Application Support/CallHistoryDB

remove all content:

CallHistory.storedata

CallHistory.storedata-shm

CallHistory.storedata-wal

Open FaceTime

Done !

Good Luck 

Im sure you have figured this out by now but this is mainly for anyone like me who is new to using mac books and doesn't know how to delete a call from face time like I didn't so here is what I did. Highlight the name you want to delete from face time and push the delete button on your key board. Thats all problem solved.

Same here

I am using El Captan, and so far I have not managed to repeat this command 12 times to see what happens because the little blue "remove all" box no longer appears.

The Apple Help menus says:

"You can clear the lists of FaceTime video and audio calls you made or received. Click Video or Audio.Control-click the blank portion of the call list, then click “Remove all Recents.”
 This clears the list you’re viewing.

In fact I find that control-clicking the “blank portion of the call list” (a rather unspecific location) only occasionally reveals the “remove all recents” option. Mostly, nothing happens. (This is in El Capitan 10.11.2)

I ran across this when I turned on iCloud on a new El Capitan machine and it pulled FaceTime calls from my phone.

I also clicked and clicked and could not get the "remove all recents" to appear. My recent calls was completely full and there was no space.

Scrolling the mouse up and down, I noticed if I pushed it up to the top, it would expand the space between the search window and the call list.

Now it's a little tricky, but it works consistently.

- Push the scroll bar all the way to the top. When you do, you will see the space between below the search window get a little bit bigger.

- At the same time you have the scroll bar pushed up, Control+Click in the space and "Remove all Recents" will appear and the box will be highlighted. (I'm using a touch pad, if you're using a mouse, you can right click but you have to pretty fast, so a control click might work better)

- select remove all recents

If they come back, I found that it was not the ones I deleted that came back, but rather just additional calls. For me, it was 4 screens before I finally got to the end of the call list.

Thanks for this answer! worked great!

Running OSX El Capitan 10.11.3 on recent MacBook Pro.

This worked!

Thanks Peter Lyons1 for your clear description. I had to use a mouse, the touch pad wouldn't do it. I did it, quit Facetime and when I restarted Facetime the calls were all still there. The second time it cleared them for good.

WOW! Talk about counterintuitive and poor layout. They could not be bothered to add a button, a drop down or even a label so you know where to click.

Thanks so much. Worked perfectly. I am very appreciative.

Thank you for the picture.

I am so glad I saw this post. I've been doing the "one at a time" deletions. Thanks so much.