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« on: May 23, 2003, 06:43:56 AM »
In no way is this causing a problem; it's just that I wanna know.

In OS X, when I navigate in Finder to Go/Recent Folders, the previous 9 folders I have accessed is displayed.

But some of the folders no longer exist. If I were to attempt to access them, I would get a dialog box so advising.

System Preferences/General allows me to adjust the number of Recent Applications and Documents, but I cannot find where/how one adjusts/edits what is in Go/Recent Folders.

Any suggestions?

Harv
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« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2003, 08:30:39 AM »
The info is probably stored in ~/library/Preferences/com.apple.plist

Not a file you want to edit.... wink.gif

Those folders will be replaced soon enough in that list.
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« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2003, 08:56:42 AM »
thanx.gif Karl. I was afraid it was something like that. And you're right, I don't want to edit that. tongue.gif

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« Reply #3 on: May 23, 2003, 01:03:53 PM »
...so, just open a bunch of other folders, eh?  thumbup.gif
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« Reply #4 on: May 23, 2003, 04:25:18 PM »
QUOTE(kps @ May 23 2003, 1:30 PM)
The info is probably stored in ~/library/Preferences/com.apple.plist

Not a file you want to edit.... wink.gif

Those folders will be replaced soon enough in that list.

What?! Is this a 'feature' of X? Your saying that the simple alias method of 9 has been replaced with a (much more stable) version that is also much less user-friendly! Pre-X stuff like this was always easily dumped/edited/added to. Not that it was something one often did, but, it was so simple. That's all the Apple Menu Items ever was, a simple list of aliases. I often changed the names of the items to force them into an order that I wanted, even adding empty folder aliases for dividers. So simple, but too hard to duplicate, I guess. Especially for neXT programmers doh.gif  harhar.gif

Further, you're saying these plists (at least some of them) are not simple text files, either?

So, basically, what I'm hearing is that X is so stable that we will all forget how nice it was to have so many things the way we want them instead of how Apple wants them. Oh well, the battle is lost. Your OS are belong to us! notworthy.gif
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« Reply #5 on: May 25, 2003, 12:03:56 AM »
Hiya Jim,

What we're discussing here is a feature of the Finder's 'GO' menu and not the 'Recent Items' feature as in the Apple Menu.

Preference lists or .plist(s) are written in XML ...a standard used in many areas including the web. Unlike OS 9, these are not binary files and can, with a working knowledge of XML be easily edited in any text editor. However, it's best to let either a system pref panel or an application preference pane do the editing and writing to these files.

You can also edit these files using the Property List Editor (found with the Developer Tools), or for browsing, listing and to add/subtract undocumented features you can use a terminal application and the unix command line via the  defaults command.

Anyone interested in persuing this, have a look at:man defaults

Just like in OS 9, trashing a plist is equivelant to trashing  a Preference File.
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