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Hack known for max. number "Open Recent" files in an app (e.g., TextEdit)
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Love Calm Quiet
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Oct 30, 2008, 06:38 AM
 
Most apps (including textedit) in which I open LOTS of files seem to max out at displaying list of only TEN most recent documents.
Well... Mac screens are mostly a lot taller (pixels) than they used to be.
I wish I could change that max to 20 or 30 most recent. Would be much handier (and reliable) than the Apple Menu's "Recent Documents" (even as enhanced by FruitMenus).
It almost seems like a system-wide limit, since everything but MSWord is limited to 10.
Anybody up for a hacking challenge? (esp. one that could be taught to someone with limited Terminal experience?) Either TextEdit-specific or system-wide would be great starts.
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Oct 30, 2008, 09:43 AM
 
In Terminal, type "defaults write .GlobalPreferences NSRecentDocumentsLimit 30" to apply a limit of 30 to every app. To do it only for specific programs, you can replace the ".GlobalPreferences" part with the name of the program's preferences file without "plist" at the end — so for TextEdit, it would be "com.apple.TextEdit".
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Love Calm Quiet  (op)
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Oct 30, 2008, 11:39 AM
 
You *made my day*, ChuckIT !

VERY nice to be able to set that system-wide.
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