Clear Menu

Ive been trying to Clear Menu in Windows Media Player Open Recent option in File, but the option is not offered. Other players, Quick Time & Real Player both have the option. How to I Clear Menu in Open Recent [Files]. Also, I am unable to Delete the individual files that appear in Open Recent. Thank you!

I dont think you can. Just need to open projects manually until they show up in the open recents menu.
In the Apple Menu, you can try Recent items to see if they are sitting there.
JG

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To get rid of some documents I chose "clear menu" but it didn't expect to lose applications also listed. It was late and I was tired. Now I have question marks for Safari, Mail, and Microsoft Word and cannot use any of them. How do I get them back?
I think I was either in "Recent folders" or in "Yesterday" under "Go" in the Finder.
Help! I'm using my wife's iBook to post this question.

HI and Welcome to Apple Discussions...
*"I have question marks for Safari, Mail, and Microsoft Word and cannot use any of them"*
Do you mean there are ? marks in your Dock where the applications icon used to be? If so, just drag those ? marks off the Dock. Then go to your Applications folder and launch Safari. With Safari open, click the Safari icon in the Dock and then click; Keep In Dock. Do that for Mail and Microsoft Word also.
Hopefully you didn't delete the application from the hard drive. If you did you need to reinstall those apps.
Reinstalling applications that came with your Mac
If you delete an application that came with your Mac, and then need to reinstall it, try any of the following suggestions.
Insert the Mac OS X Install Disc and double-click the package that installs bundled software or additional software. A package has an icon that looks like an opened box.
Follow the onscreen instructions. If you see a pane with a Customize button, click Customize and select the application you want to install. If you see a pane that lets you choose what to install, click the disclosure triangle beside Applications and select the application you want to install.
You will have to reinstall MWord from the install disk. Hopefully, that won't be necessary.
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How do I remove items Clear Menu doesn't

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Does anyone know how to customize configurations so that I could have a clear menu bar and also, make it so that when i open up windows, it'll be clear..??
plz?
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Actually there's a public beta if you look around the site. Honestly all that kind of stuff does nothing to help you computer's stability. I can't tell you how many times someone has some weird quirk that can't be explained until they realize they're running some hack. Especially one that works so deep in the system.
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How can I clear the Quicktime menu cache?

My quicktime player has 10 old file names cached. They show up when I right click a running QuickTime.app ; and they show up when I choose "Show recents". They are not connected to any actual file (I've removed the files), but I cannot make them go away. The help page says to use File | Open Recent | Clear Menu, but the "Clear Menu" choice is grayed out (and no recent files appear there). Clear Menu did seem to work, exactly once, though I cannot recall if the movies were the same names or some other set.
This appears to be a bug which has two components:
Clear Menu should just work; and doesn't
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Jon Walker wrote:
The help page says to use File | Open Recent | Clear Menu, but the "Clear Menu" choice is grayed out (and no recent files appear there). Clear Menu did seem to work, exactly once, though I cannot recall if the movies were the same names or some other set.
This only seems to work before you delete/remove the referenced files. I.e., it appears the "Clear" routine may actually check the link(s) for validity and if no longer valid, aborts the "Clear" routine. Be advised that you get similar results if you have an active RSS reference, deleted the sourced web site, and then try to clear the RSS reference entry.
That is pretty much what I had decided. This is still a bug, though: Clear Menu should just work.
Jon Walker wrote:
QuickTimePlayer should have a preferences pane that allows me to choose a reasonable number of prior file names to cache (say 0 to 20). Somewhat amazingly, it has no preferences pane at all.
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This too is a bug. I do not want the same number of "recent" items for all my apps. KISS principle should be "Keep It Simple, Stupid, But Only As Simple As Possible." My usual technique is to provide an adjustable global default for such things, with added individual adjustments. That way folks who have no issue never touch it, folks with a plain vanilla requirement touch one thing and folks who have complex requirements have a complete set of valves and switches under the red cover.

Clear Recents in Show Recents Dock Menu

Hello,
Its probably been there for ever but I have only just noticed the "show recents" after right clicking a Dock menu item, this is brillaint, but how can I clear them?
I've tried clicking them while holding down modifier keys but I can't seem to get rid of them, I have also tried using the clear menu command under the Apps File menu Open Recent, but this does not work, and there does not seem to be anything in the Dock- System Preferences, so any ideas?
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The number of "recents" is determined in System Preferences > General tab > Number of recent items:
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Managing Menu Bar Items

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It's not clear what you want to remove.
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That's only a history of the items and folders you used. You don't delete anything.

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When I right click an app's icon in the dock, I get a list of previously opened documents.
How do I clear this list?

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Problem with DIV "clearing both"

I am in the process of building a template for my website. I
have built my Spry menu bar and have designated a div for to become
my "editable area." This area to become the editable area is a DIV
called "main content." It placed directly following the Spry menu
bar. I have set a CSS rule for the "main content" div as: BOX =
Float: left and Clear: both.
Why is the content (text) for the "main content" div still
jumping up along side my spry menu bar?
See the page...
http://www.birchwoodstudios.net/luke/bsweb/Birchwoodstudios.html
Thanks so much in advance!
Luke

Luke, a few problems in your code, don't use spaces in CSS
div names. Also
you don't need to place float and clear inside the same
division.
Try this instead.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0
Transitional//EN"
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="
http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Birchwood Studios</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {
background-color: #FFFFFF;
margin-left: 0px;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0px;}
body,td,th {
font: 100% Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#FFFFFF}
#container {
margin-right: auto;
margin-left: auto;
width: 780px;
background-color: #2A5FAA;}
#banner {
padding: 10px;
background-color: #2A5FAA;}
#menubar {font-size:16px}
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clear:both;
visibility:hidden}
#maincontent {padding: 10px; font-size:1em;
line-height:1.5em}
#footer {text-align:center; font-size:.75em;}
</style>
<script src="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js"
type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css"
rel="stylesheet"
type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="banner"> <img
src="images/2ndbanner.gif"
width="760" height="156" alt="Birchwood studios banner" />
</div>
<div id="menubar">
<ul id="MenuBar1" class="MenuBarHorizontal">
<li><a href="#">Main </a> </li>
<li><a href="#"
class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Services</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Photo
Scanning</a></li>
<li><a href="#">DVD
Slideshows</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Photo
Restoration</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Website
Development</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Web Hosting</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Search Engine
Optimization</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu"
href="#">Pricing</a><ul>
<li><a href="#">Photo Scanning</a>
</li>
<li><a href="#">DVD
Slideshows</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Photo
Restoration</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Website
Development</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Web Hosting</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Search Engine
Optimization</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#">About Us</a> </li>
<li><a href="#">Contact Us</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="clearing"></div>
<div id="maincontent">
<p>Content for id maincontent Goes Here</p>
</div> 
<div id="footer">
<p>Content for id footer Goes Here</p>
</div> 
</div> 
<script type="text/javascript">

</script>
</body>
</html>
"ape54321" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:[email protected]...
> I am in the process of building a template for my
website. I have built
my
> Spry menu bar and have designated a div for to become my
"editable area."
This
> area to become the editable area is a DIV called "main
content." It
placed
> directly following the Spry menu bar. I have set a CSS
rule for the "main
> content" div as: BOX = Float: left and Clear: both.
>
> Why is the content (text) for the "main content" div
still jumping up
along
> side my spry menu bar?
>
> See the page...
>
http://www.birchwoodstudios.net/luke/bsweb/Birchwoodstudios.html
>
> Thanks so much in advance!
> Luke
>

How do i clear history in quick time

i need to clear all the history from quick time, preview and recents

I've had exactly the same questions and the answer "Goto: File > Open Recent > Clear Menu and Quit the application" did not solve my problem until i've opened a new MP4 file. Somehow, with opening a new file, the history gets cleared. If you simple clear the menu and restart quicktime the old history will still be in the dock.
To summarize:
Goto: File > Open Recent > Clear Menu and Quit the application
Open a MP4 or other file and see, after opening, if this solved your problem
In my case it did.

How do I clear windows in quicktime?

When you right click the QT icon, a list of the last movies watched shows up. How do I clear this list of windows? "Open Recent- clear menu" doesn't do it. Clearing recent items in the system menu doesn't do it either. I seem to recall a way to push something and right click on the QT icon that then gives you a choice to clear windows in the popup menu, but I can't remember what it is.

don't do it. It will make your mac slower. If you insist:
Clear cache in Lion
Open a finder window and select “Go to Folder” in the Go menu
Type in ~/Library/Caches
This is optional, but you can highlight & copy everything to a different folder in case anything goes wrong.
Highlight everything and press CMD and Backspace
Restart your machine
Source: http://www.techbeast.net/2011/07/24/osx-lion-clear-your-caches/

Open Recent Menu failure

There was one reference to my problem in the past but an explanation for how to repair or correct the problem was not included in the posting. As well, I've read back a few hundred discussion items and have not been able to find any other references to this problem. I'll understand if it is uncommon.
For some time now I've been unable to see a list of items in my "Open Recent" menu item. The grey "Clear Menu" item appears but none of the recent items I was working on ever appear in the list. I can't remember when I first saw this but I haven't acted on it until today.
I'm using Pages 3.01 on a MacBook Pro and I usually run Parallels at the same time. But I have this problem whether I'm running other software or not.
Now I do rely on CopyPaste to be running when I startup and I have Default Folder set to load on startup because I rely on these so much during my writing. But they are separate applications and don't patch the system, really. So I don't suspect either of these being a culprit.
I've trashed preferences found in the user library without solving the problem.
I'm not a power use of my MacBook Pro so I don't know much about where to see more. Anyone who might be able to either identify my problem and point me to a solution or examine my problem with me and help me diagnose it for other readers would be able to reply to this.
I'm still in 10.4.11 so it's not a Leopard thing yet. Everything else I do on this Mac is pretty normal (except for a flakey copy and paste with Photoshop Elements).
Why this would have worked some time ago and fail in recent months is part of the mystery as well. And for those who might suggest I send in a comment to Apple -- I already have (with little hope for their response).
If I'm the only person having this problem I'll accept the silence.
Cheers

I have to give special thanks for this to the MacFixit "Be Your Own Mac Troubleshooting Guru" and especially pages 26 and 27.
Essentially the guide states you can drag your User Library folder to the desktop and disable everything at once. Then log out and log back in.
Then launch Pages and find the Recent Menu is working fine.
Then you put back folder after folder until it breaks. I went through all of them and came down to the last two (Application Support and Preferences) with no problem. I then put the Support folder in and expected it to fail - but it did not. So after one more log out and log in I was down to going through all the Preferences files and folders.
Most of them were easy but there were a few which already existed and I did not replace those (about 16 files). None of the ones I left out had anything to do with iWork or Pages (and that's what people were suggesting here).
So, now I have a fully working system with no real changes to the way I had it before. Now there was ONE thing which did not work the way it did before. My two finger hold and click usually brought up the contextual menu (a right click substitute) and this didn't work any more.
I went to System Preferences and turned it back on (Keyboard and Mouse) and things are still working fine with Pages. So, I think I'll say the problem is solved and thank everyone for their support through this process.
The making of a new user was the clue and the use of MacFixit's diagnostic steps helped me work this out over about 2 hours. I know many of you might wonder why I didn't just move everything over to a new user - but those who know will understand the process I used was pretty much the same. Any problem I had in the Preferences folder of the Library would have copied across and I would not have been the wiser.
For Yvan: Yes, I'm waiting with Leopard. I have a couple of utilities which I need in my work and they haven't released Leopard updates yet. When those are in the bag I'll be going up to Leopard.
Thanks everyone. Now I have a process I can use for future problems if I have them in some other area.
Cheers.

Forms 6i - menu disable

Hi!
I cleared "Menu Module" property (DEFAULT&SMARTBAR) in my form module, but I still have "Window" menu. Is there way to disable menu at all?
Thank you.

The default menu is DEFAULT&SMARTBAR (Menu Module property on module level). If you remove SMARTBAR, you will have no smartbar at all.
Edited by: InoL on Mar 31, 2011 11:55 AM

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