File Menu Recent Documents

Is there a way to change the number of Recent Documents that appear via the File Menu > Recent Documents item? Thanks.

Thanks. It executed, but the menu didn't change. I wonder if the property name changed since the macro was written. Does anybody know the current StarOffice8 property name that controls this feature?

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Missing recent documents in TextEdit/Preview - File

This issue happened after merging a new Tiger OS with an encrypted home directory (File Vault). I can see my recent docs and apps if I switch them on within the System Preferences. Other apps like BBEdit or Microsoft Excel for example are tracking my recent docs also correctly. But the menu recent documents in the applications TextEdit and Preview remain empty independet how many docs I open and save. I therefore tried another user with the same OS without File Vault and everything behaves like normal. If I make a new document within TextEdit and do save it I can see it in the menu File as recently opened documents. Does anybody have an idea? Please HELP!
Mac Pro Mac OS X (10.4.8) 5GB RAM

The recent documents lists for TextEdit and Preview are contained within their respective preferences files. Try deleting these files and see if that solves the problem:
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.TextEdit.plist
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Preview.plist
(Where the "~/" is your home directory.)

Repair for missing "open recent" documents option in my File Menu?

Can someone suggest how to repair a missing "open recent" documents option in my File Menu? I'm using CS5 Indesign.
There's no option for it greyed out or otherwise. It originally had dissappeared while using CS4. I gave up on it. Installed CS5 and hoped it would come back: nada. I did the Ctrl-Alt-Shift thing and deleted prefs file: Still no recent docs option. VERY IRRITATING.
There's got to be a way. But I'm not informed enough. Help, please?

This is easily fixed...took me a while to find out how.
Go into Preferences, click on File Handling...you will then see a page with 'Saving InDesign Files' in the middle section (See attached screen grab). You'll see a box next to 'Number of Recent Items to Display' which I'm assuming will be '0'...change this to any number up to 99. Click OK. Close InDesign. Reopen InDesign...Open a file, close the file...you will now see the 'Open Recent' link when you click on file.
Problem solved.

Microsoft Office for Mac open recent File menu option causing AFP to crash

Hi all,
We have an Xserve running Mac OS X Server Leopard 10.5.8. The Xserve hosts three file shares for about 60 users. Our network is 99% Mac based running mostly 10.5.8 with a few 10.6.x. We have historically over the past several years had the AFP service become unreliable and crash frequently. Late last week the AFP service crashes constantly. The quick solution to getting it up and running is to delete the AFP.conf file in /etc.
We have troubleshot one cause of AFP crashing to the Open Recent... File menu option in Microsoft Office for Mac applications. That is, through some amount (haven't been able to narrow it down to how much) of opening documents on the share via the Open Recent menu the AFP service will crash.
Here's what's happening in the AppleFileServer .crash file:
Process: AppleFileServer [26065]
Path: /usr/sbin/AppleFileServer
Identifier: AppleFileServer
Version: ??? (???)
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [1]
Date/Time: 2010-04-12 13:25:54.666 -0700
OS Version: Mac OS X Server 10.5.8 (9L34)
Report Version: 6
Anonymous UUID: 273147DD-D725-4DAB-B403-95391FF85FE1
Exception Type: EXCBADACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERNPROTECTIONFAILURE at 0x0000000000000015
Crashed Thread: XX
******** blah *********
Thread XX Crashed:
0 AppleFileServer 0x0004bc15 operator+(OSException&) + 103513
1 AppleFileServer 0x00064988 operator+(OSException&) + 205260
2 AppleFileServer 0x0006da4e operator+(OSException&) + 242322
3 AppleFileServer 0x000711f3 operator+(OSException&) + 256567
4 AppleFileServer 0x00071446 operator+(OSException&) + 257162
5 AppleFileServer 0x00076686 operator+(OSException&) + 278218
6 AppleFileServer 0x000790d7 operator+(OSException&) + 289051
7 AppleFileServer 0x0004560c operator+(OSException&) + 77392
8 AppleFileServer 0x00044269 operator+(OSException&) + 72365
9 AppleFileServer 0x00044343 operator+(OSException&) + 72583
10 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9587c155 pthreadstart + 321
11 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9587c012 thread_start + 34
This is followed by a lot of these entries in AppleFileService.log file:
IP xx.xx.xx.xx - - [12/Apr/2010:13:25:54 -0800] "Login username" 0 0 0
IP xx.xx.xx.xx - - [12/Apr/2010:13:25:54 -0800] "No matching key: username" 1271103954 1271103943 1
** - - [12/Apr/2010:13:26:15 -0800] "Mounted Volume VOLUME1" 0 0 0
** - - [12/Apr/2010:13:26:15 -0800] "Mounted Volume VOLUME2" 1 0 0
** - - [12/Apr/2010:13:26:15 -0800] "DiskArbStart -" 0 0 0
Our solution is to have all our users turn off the open recent option in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Not an ideal solution but it may get the AFP service running "good enough."
Has anyone had an experience like this before or can anyone duplicate the AFP service crashing when trying to open documents on a share via the open recent menu? Any other ideas?
Thanks

Update.
I have been able to consistently reproduce a problem where the AFP service will crash if a file that a user has an alias to is moved to a folder and the user is denied access to .
1. On your Mac create an alias to a file or folder, that you have access to, that is stored on a share served via AFP. The alias can be in the Places section of a Finder window, on the Desktop, or anywhere an alias can be created. Lets call what the alias points to the target.
2. Move the target to a folder on the AFP share and deny the user or group Read & Write access to that folder.
3. Try accessing the target via the alias created in step 1.
The AFP service should crash.
Can anyone reproduce this crash scenario too?

Crashing if I open a document, but not if I use the 'File' menu?

I've got InDesign CS5 on Windows 7. If I open InDesign and use File > Open, I can launch my projects without trouble. If I go to the file in Windows Explorer and double-click it, InDesign launches, but hangs without opening the document and I have to force-quit from the Task Manager. Any suggestions? It's not a major issue, but it's a hassle not to be able to simply select a recent document and open it from the start menu.

Re-associate InDesign with the file type
Right Click > Open With > InDesign should be listed but the belt and suspenders approach might merit actually browsing to the InDesign .exe file

Recent document in template menu

I am having an issue with being able to choose a recent keynote document out of the templete box that firsts opens with the application. This issue has started since 10.6
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I'm having the same (or similar problem). The recent files menu in the template box is empty as is the recent files list in the File menu.
I tried deleting the .plist file (com.apple.iWork09.plist) but that didn't help.
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How can I remove items from the open a recent file menue.

How can I remove items from the "Open a Recent File" menue. Many other applications allow the clearing of that file . Is this possible in Adobe Reader 10.1.2 ? If so how?

See this previous topic: http://forums.adobe.com/message/3759596
It is for Acrobat, but the registry entries are similar for Reader.

How do I move a file from "Recents" in Adobe Reader for Android to a folder in "Documents"?

How do I move a file from "Recents" in Adobe Reader for Android to a folder in "Documents"?
Files from Google Drive are appearing in "Recents" where I cannot organize them hierarchically.
I cannot find a user manual for Adobe Reader for Android with this level of detail.

Hi John,
Files opened via Google Drive are not listed in ‘Documents' section of Adobe Reader, because they are read only files. If you really want to save these files to ’Documents' then please follow below steps -
Open the file from Google drive in Adobe Reader.
Tap on the Comment icon placed at top toolbar(Second icon from the beginning)
You would encounter a 'Read-Only document’ dialog, tap on Save button.
Once you performed above steps , your file will be saved in /Download/Adobe Reader/ folder.
Hope this will solve your problem.
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How can I convert my Open Source document files into Word document files? I cannot download Pages since my Macbook Air does not have the most recent software.

How can I convert my Open Source document files into Word document files? I cannot download Pages since my Macbook Air does not have the most recent software. I downloaded open office to my mac to try and save money. It worked well for a while. Now I get this pop-up message that asks me to "Reopen" and when I select the option, nothing happens. I cannot save my documents anymore and I cannot convert them to word. Help!

dwb wrote:
Does OpenOffice output Word documents by default or do you have to select it manually?
You have 17 options to save as in Open Office, one of which is .doc files, yes it needs to be saved manually.
You may be able to default to DOC, but have not tried same.
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How can I Hide(not Disable) the Save As and Exit options in the File menu of Excel Documents in SharePoint 2013?

Hi,
I want to hide(not disable) the "Save As" and "Exit" options in the File Menu of Excel Documents in SharePoint 2013.When I make changes in the excelribbon.css file of xlviewer.aspx,all the options under File menu are getting hidden but
I want to hide only these two options while retaining the others.
Kindly suggest me a method to achieve this.
Looking forward to your reply at the earliest.
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Sanjana

Hi Sanjana,
To hide the “Save As” and “Exit” options in xlviewer.aspx page in SharePoint, I recommend to use the code below(however it is not recommended):
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display:none !important;
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display:none !important;
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As “:nth-child()” selector is supported in IE 9 and later versions, please use IE 9 or later versions’ IE browser.
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I recently installed Lion on my iMac. Pages no longer has the "Save as" command in the File menu. Help!

I recently installed iOS 5 on my iMac. Pages no longer has the "Save as" command in the file menu. Can anyone help?

It's not you, it's Lion, Save As is gone.

Is there an easy way to get a "recent files" menu with a path control?

If not, does anybody have any modular code that would do the trick? I could build this from scratch, but I'm sure it's been done many times already.

bmihura wrote:
Yep, that's what I need. Before posting it, please test it with no other VI's open, as others on this forum will likely want it.
Are you refering to password locking the subvis? Or do you mean you want me to make sure it can work with any top level VI? If the latter is true, then the answer is YES. It will work with any menu. It will place a list of recent files (it will limit them to a specified number, which is configurable) just above the last option under your first menu group. So say you have the "File" menu first, and your last option is "Exit," then the File menu would look like:
Before:
New...
Open...
Close...
Exit
After:
New...
Open...
Close...
"Name of recent file 1"
"Name of recent file 2"
Exit
Now of course your menu probably won't look just like that, but as long as the recent files list can put itself beside the last option (with a seperator), it will work fine. Let me know if you have any more questions before I post the subs.
7J1L1M
P.S. They run on LabVIEW 7.1, but I can save them to 7.0 if that is the version you have.

Documents (picture files) in Recent Items issues

My machine is a 2009 MacBook Air with Lion (10.7.3) and I just noticed recently that I can still open the JPG files in Recent Items even though I have already deleted those JPG files. (When I click on the file name from Recent Items menu, Preview still opens the JPG file)
Does this have to do with Lion's Auto Save & Versions? I have tried to search for the file, but I can't find where the file location is. Is there a way to delete pictures completely?
I have searched for solutions, but I couldn't find answers directly to my issue. Can anyone help me out? Thanks in advance!

Thank you so much for the help!
Going by your solution, I was able to find the file location.
I found out it's not because of the Auto Save & Versions, it is actually because of Messages (iMessage). I received these pictures on my Messages and I guess the app automatically saves the pictures in the Messages folder when you receive picture files.

"open recent file" menu item - 2 issues / aspects (Mac & Windows)

regarding the "open recent file" menu item in the File menu.
1) should have a way to "clear recent items". Most software solves this by appending an item "Clear Recent Items" to the bottom of the list of aliases that springs forth from the menu.
2) Further, in the preferences it should be able to be set to 0 to prevent the function entirely, not just natural #s 1-99. This is the case in Windows Adobe REader, and on the Mac it was the case the last time I was able to check, but due to the bugs in 9.1.x regarding the ability to handle a case-sensitive file system I haven't been able to even open the preferences on the mac for a while.

Michael:
Thanks for your quick reply.
Please note that this issue: "open recent file" menu item that is not clearable, nor is the system preference able to be set to retain 0 files,
has absolutely nothing to do with the file system issue. It is just a design choice (or oversight or bug depending on your point of view).
It is an issue of security/privacy to not have the Reader keep a list of recently viewed files, or to at least allow the user to clear the list.
Thanks again for your time, interest, and speedy reply.
Cheers!

How do I clear the recently edited files in the file menu?

How do I clear the recently edited files in the file menu? (ie. cache)

I don't have PSEv.13, but in my current version, and in the two that I had before, the behavior is/was identical.
As far as I know, the only way to purge an entry in the list of recently edited files via the File menu, is to delete the picture file or send it to the recycle bin.
Perhaps someone will come along with additional information.
"The File option dose not have an option for FILE-MORE-PURGE CACHE. as Adobe suggested."
Where is this referenced suggestion?? On-line? In a book or manual?

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