Re: Recent Documents on OS10.4?
Hiyas! Thinking maybe 10.4 can pop up a Finder window with my most recently worked on documents so I'm not navigating all over creation first thing in the morning while sipping first coffee? Apple+Find? Or is there something else? No one has mentioned 'Smart Folders'. http://www.macworld.com/article/60315/2007/10/smartfolders.html Andy --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Recent Documents on OS10.4?
On Feb 11, 2009, at 4:20 AM, g3-5-list group wrote: == 4 of 4 == Date: Tues, Feb 10 2009 7:05 am From: Len Gerstel Under the Apple menu-Recent Items lists recent Applications, documents and servers Each can be set in the Appearance preference pane to remember 0, 5, 10, 15, 20, 30 or 50 of the last one you opened. Len: Thanks for the tip. The default has been bugging me for years. I never thought to look in Appearance for something which seems to belong somewhere in System. Anne: Thanks for asking. Al Poulin --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Recent Documents on OS10.4?
All right! Thanks, Al, Len, Charles and Steve. Never thought of it before, and considered it a kind of weenie question, but it could save me a lot of time navigating through menus. And I've been a Mac user since - uh - 1989 but really had no clue. On Feb 11, 2009, at 10:12 AM, Al Poulin wrote: On Feb 11, 2009, at 4:20 AM, g3-5-list group wrote: == 4 of 4 == Date: Tues, Feb 10 2009 7:05 am From: Len Gerstel Under the Apple menu-Recent Items lists recent Applications, documents and servers Each can be set in the Appearance preference pane to remember 0, 5, 10, 15, 20, 30 or 50 of the last one you opened. Len: Thanks for the tip. The default has been bugging me for years. I never thought to look in Appearance for something which seems to belong somewhere in System. Anne: Thanks for asking. Al Poulin Anne Keller Smith Down to Earth Web Design G4 Quicksilver 733mHz Tower 896 MB RAM, 40 GB hard drive, OS 10.4.11 Intel iMac 2.4gHz Core 2 Duo 1GB RAM, 250GB Hard Drive, OS 10.5.5 mailto:earth...@ptd.net http://www.downtoearthweb.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Recent Documents on OS10.4?
At 10:05 AM -0500 2/10/2009, Len Gerstel wrote: I have spent the last 10 minutes looking (waiting for the coffee to kick in to start real work) and I can not find where the recent items are stored. They have to be stored somewhere. ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.recentitems.plist - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Recent Documents on OS10.4?
At 12:46 PM -0500 2/11/2009, Anne Keller-Smith wrote: Never thought of it before, and considered it a kind of weenie question, but it could save me a lot of time navigating through menus. Don't forget you can stick documents in your dock and on the left sidebar of Finder windows. Makes 'em easy to hit. Some apps will let you automatically re-open a set of docs (restore windows, etc) too. That can be helpful. eg: AlphaX automatically re-opens all my notes files when I launch it. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Recent Documents on OS10.4?
At 3:02 PM -0500 2/11/09, Len Gerstel posted: On Feb 11, 2009, at 12:16 PM, Dan wrote: At 10:05 AM -0500 2/10/2009, Len Gerstel wrote: I have spent the last 10 minutes looking (waiting for the coffee to kick in to start real work) and I can not find where the recent items are stored. They have to be stored somewhere. ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.recentitems.plist Thanks. As I mentioned, waiting for the coffee to kick in. I figured it was a plist, but searching for recent did not reveal it. I remember NOW that I disabled showing plists in search results, which explains that. But it doesn't explain why I could not find com.apple.recentitems.plist when I was scanning the folder, except for the coffee issue. I was hoping for the off chance that it worked like I seem to remember OS9's recent items, by keeping an alias in a recent items folder. That way, you could just open the folder and click on whatever doc you wanted to open. Didn't 10.4 have a Favourites feature in Finder's Go menu? I'm not seeing it on Leopard (I might have disabled it or it might have been a Default Folders preference which I don't have loaded in Leopard.) Steve R --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Recent Documents on OS10.4?
At 3:12 PM -0500 2/11/2009, Steve R wrote: Didn't 10.4 have a Favourites feature in Finder's Go menu? I'm not seeing it on Leopard Tiger has a Recent folders item in the Go menu. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Recent Documents on OS10.4?
At 3:25 PM -0500 2/11/09, Dan posted: At 3:12 PM -0500 2/11/2009, Steve R wrote: Didn't 10.4 have a Favourites feature in Finder's Go menu? I'm not seeing it on Leopard Tiger has a Recent folders item in the Go menu. Then my 10.4 Favourites feature must have been added via Default Folders. Steve R --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Recent Documents on OS10.4?
At 3:46 PM -0500 2/11/2009, Steve R wrote: At 3:25 PM -0500 2/11/09, Dan posted: At 3:12 PM -0500 2/11/2009, Steve R wrote: Didn't 10.4 have a Favourites feature in Finder's Go menu? I'm not seeing it on Leopard Tiger has a Recent folders item in the Go menu. Then my 10.4 Favourites feature must have been added via Default Folders. I used Default Folders back in the classic OS days. Wonderful extension! I really should take a look at Default Folders X. OS X's plain open-file dialog drives me nutz. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Recent Documents on OS10.4?
On Feb 11, 3:25 pm, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: Tiger has a Recent folders item in the Go menu. And I see it there in Leopard. Al Poulin --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Recent Documents on OS10.4?
Hiyas! Thinking maybe 10.4 can pop up a Finder window with my most recently worked on documents so I'm not navigating all over creation first thing in the morning while sipping first coffee? Apple+Find? Or is there something else? Anne Keller Smith Down to Earth Web Design G4 Quicksilver 733mHz Tower 896 MB RAM, 40 GB hard drive, OS 10.4.11 Intel iMac 2.4gHz Core 2 Duo 1GB RAM, 250GB Hard Drive, OS 10.5.5 mailto:earth...@ptd.net http://www.downtoearthweb.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Recent Documents on OS10.4?
At 9:40 AM -0500 2/10/09, Anne Keller-Smith posted: Hiyas! Thinking maybe 10.4 can pop up a Finder window with my most recently worked on documents so I'm not navigating all over creation first thing in the morning while sipping first coffee? Apple+Find? Or is there something else? Apple Menu/Recent Items/Documents? System Preferences/Appearance/Number of Documents? Steve R --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Recent Documents on OS10.4?
On Feb 10, 2009, at 9:40 AM, Anne Keller-Smith wrote: Hiyas! Thinking maybe 10.4 can pop up a Finder window with my most recently worked on documents so I'm not navigating all over creation first thing in the morning while sipping first coffee? Apple+Find? Or is there something else? Anne! Try --- Apple (UL corner of screen)/ Recent Items HTH Chuck D. Anne Keller Smith Down to Earth Web Design G4 Quicksilver 733mHz Tower 896 MB RAM, 40 GB hard drive, OS 10.4.11 Intel iMac 2.4gHz Core 2 Duo 1GB RAM, 250GB Hard Drive, OS 10.5.5 mailto:earth...@ptd.net http://www.downtoearthweb.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Recent Documents on OS10.4?
On Feb 10, 2009, at 9:40 AM, Anne Keller-Smith wrote: Hiyas! Thinking maybe 10.4 can pop up a Finder window with my most recently worked on documents so I'm not navigating all over creation first thing in the morning while sipping first coffee? Apple+Find? Or is there something else? Late with answer, but see below Under the Apple menu-Recent Items lists recent Applications, documents and servers Each can be set in the Appearance preference pane to remember 0, 5, 10, 15, 20, 30 or 50 of the last one you opened. I have spent the last 10 minutes looking (waiting for the coffee to kick in to start real work) and I can not find where the recent items are stored. They have to be stored somewhere. If we can determine where, you can set that item/ folder to open at start up and be a little easier to search than the apple menu. Spotlight fails to find anything labeled Recent items or to find an alias of one of my recent documents that is listed in the recent documents portion of the menu. Maybe stored in a plist somewhere? I found no obvious winners. I also strike out looking for invisible items. Anyone know where this information is stored? Len --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
