[ringo]

Does anyone know a way to configure the Recent Items menu to always exclude certain documents or applications?

thx. -ringo

[ManOfSteal]

Uh oh, what are you trying to hide?

[darkcore]

teh pr0ns

[ringo]

So, seriously, is there a way to do this?

Maybe a script I could run in the background that would make selective edits to wherever OSX stashes away the recent item list? Have it fire every hour or so and remove references to certain apps, or files with certain extensions?

How does OS X keep track of what you've opened recently?

[darkcore]

they're stored in a .plist in: ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.recentitems.plist

not sure how easy that would be to parse...

[theory]

use default find / delete on the com.apple.recentitems.plist domain and put it in a cron job, 2 ezy

[ringo]

OK, so I tried working with ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.recentitems.plist.

It looks like both apps and docs have a small section, each starts with about 9 lines that aren't human-readable under the key doc-aliases and app-aliases, beneath each is a section that is human-readable. keys: apps and docs.

I tried editing out sets of aliases and associated documents, but the changes don't show in the interface. Any ideas about what needs to happen to make my changes "take" after the edit?