Since upgrading to El Capitan, apps like Apple Pages that have right-click dock icon to show "recents" functionality are not updated to reflect recently opened files. The list of files displayed are ones I opened several days ago. The only way I can refresh the list is to kill the dock via the Terminal. How can I get these fly out menus to function properly and update themselves?
Thanks for your help!
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)
It is a bug, frustrating, should be fixed. But -- as the guy at the top said -- it takes five seconds to fix whenever the list gets too far off:
hit command-space
type "terminal"and hit return
type "killall Dock" and hit return
You're done. Wait a couple more seconds and your dock is there with an up-to-date list.
It is a bug, frustrating, should be fixed. But -- as the guy at the top said -- it takes five seconds to fix whenever the list gets too far off:
hit command-space
type "terminal"and hit return
type "killall Dock" and hit return
You're done. Wait a couple more seconds and your dock is there with an up-to-date list.
Enter into user library : macOS Sierra: Library folder
Find a folder Preferences : drag and drop com.apple.Preferences.plist to the desktop .
Restart the computer and see if it works .
I'm having the same problem myself, but with TextEdit. I could open 10 documents, then close them all, but none of them will show up when I right-click on the TextEdit icon. I have to remove TextEdit from my dock, then put it back, for them to show up. It's irritating because I didn't have this problem in Yosemite. I don't even know if I should call it a problem, it's more like an annoyance.
Back up all data.
Triple-click the line below on this page to select it, then copy the text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C:
~/Library/Application Support/com.apple.sharedfilelist
In the Finder, select
Go ▹ Go to Folder...
from the menu bar and paste into the box that opens by pressing command-V. You may not see what you pasted because a line break is included. Press return. A folder may open. If it does, move the contents to the Desktop, leaving the folder open. Log out or restart the computer and test. All your recent-items lists will initially be empty. If the problem isn't solved, put back each of the items you moved, overwriting the one that will have been created in its place. Post your results.
Otherwise, delete the items you moved to the Desktop.
That did not help me because it did not address my problem. There was nothing wrong with the contents of my Recent Items ( --> Recent Items) menu. I was talking about the fact that if I open a document in TextEdit called BlahBlahBlah Ch.1, and then I close it, if I right-click on the TextEdit icon in my dock, I will not see BlahBlahBlah Ch.1 listed as having been a previously opened document. In order for me to see that it had been previously opened, I have to remove the TextEdit icon from my dock, then put it back. This seems like a stupidly absurd thing to do every time I have to use that application.
Literalism literally (if you'll excuse the pun) described the exact same problem, only using Pages.
Does anyone want to help either of us? I've asked this question a couple of times here, to no avail, so maybe the third time will be the charm.
Did you ever get this resolved? t's bugging me too.
January now and still no resolution to this problem?
No, there's been no resolution at all. It's actually incredibly frustrating, because it's not a serious, oh-my-god-my-computer-is-broken kind of problem, it's just an annoying, irritating little thing that I would love to see someone say they found a solution for.
Having the same issue. Very frustrating and annoying.
You need to quit the Dock in order to the App icon recent documents (in contextual menu and in Exposé) refresh to the actual state of Application (what you see in Recent Documents in File Menu). Apple, please resolve this obvious bug. Anyone know how post bugs to Apple? The recent editions of OS X come with a tons of them.
Something new about this very annoiying bug? It makes de "recent documents" feature in Dock completly useless. Its so so obvious and, I guess, very easy to fix by the OS guys at Apple. If you depend on these feature, you need to completly change your workflow just for this. Why Apple, why?
Just upgraded from 10.10.x to 10.11.3 last week, and found this issue too. At first I thought it was just one specific app, but turns out it is actually happening to everything.
Additionally, this issue isn't just affecting apps that are 'Keep in Dock'. It seems to affect all apps, but those that are not pinned to the Dock get their Dock context menu's recent items updated each time they are launched, but then the list is static until they are quit & re-launched.
Submitted a bug report, hopefully we'll see something for this soon.
Yeah, I got the issue too with TextMate 2 in OS X 10.11.3. Like @Braulion said, for now you need to kill/relaunch the Dock and only then the Recents list will be properly updated:
killall -KILL Dock
Same here: After recent 10.11 update, no longer updated recent files in dock for i.e. TextEdit and Numbers.
I also noticed that the position of TextEdit windows are not saved. They now always open at the same x/y position, even if you drag them to a different spot, alter them and save them.
Dock App's "Recents" Not Updating
