Where are "Recent Items" stored?

[Mike H.]

Hi,

This is somewhat of a bizarre request. I am wondering where the "Recent
Items" list in OSX (accessible from the Apple menu) is stored. In Classic,
this was just a folder with aliases to recently opened Applications and
Documents.

What I would like to do is clear an application from this list (after it
shows up). I haven't been able to find any information on this anywhere.
Does anybody have any ideas?

Thanks,

Mike H.

[Manfred Lippert]

> This is somewhat of a bizarre request. I am wondering where the "Recent

> Items" list in OSX (accessible from the Apple menu) is stored.

Here:
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.recentitems.plist

Regards,
Mani

[Simon Slavin]

In article <BB8FBD4D.1A174%mani@mani.de>,
Manfred Lippert <mani@mani.de> wrote:

>> This is somewhat of a bizarre request. I am wondering where the "Recent
>> Items" list in OSX (accessible from the Apple menu) is stored.

>
>Here:
>~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.recentitems.plist

But don't try to do it by editing that file, the contents are
sometimes cached. Use the 'defaults' command to do it instead.
'man defaults' for details.

If you're programming in Cocoa then you have even simpler
access to the defaults system.

[Miro Jurisic]

In article <BB92A9D8966853DD44@10.0.1.2>,
[email]slavins@hearsay.demon.co.uk[/email]@localhost (Simon Slavin) wrote:

> In article <BB8FBD4D.1A174%mani@mani.de>,
> Manfred Lippert <mani@mani.de> wrote:
>

> >> This is somewhat of a bizarre request. I am wondering where the "Recent
> >> Items" list in OSX (accessible from the Apple menu) is stored.

> >
> >Here:
> >~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.recentitems.plist

>
> But don't try to do it by editing that file, the contents are
> sometimes cached. Use the 'defaults' command to do it instead.
> 'man defaults' for details.
>
> If you're programming in Cocoa then you have even simpler
> access to the defaults system.

In either Cocoa or Carbon, CFPreferences is a good API to use for this.

meeroh

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