On 12/4/2002 19:34, Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote

>In OS 9 and below you can open up the recent items folder which resides in
>the apple menu and delete some of the recent items and keep some of them.
>
>I know there is a command to clear the recent items folder in OS X but is
>there a folder that contains these aliases which the user can open and then
>delete SOME of them?
>

It looks like the recent items are stored in a preference file:
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.recentitems.plist
You *might* be able to edit the plist file if you are sure to get rid of 
the string (which has the readable name of the file) AND its 
corresponding gibberish reference to its location. So... if the file you 
wanted to remove was 3rd in the list of readable document names, I'd bet 
that you'd need to take out the 3rd item in the list of gibberish aliases.

I haven't tried this, so it might backfire.

Bill

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