"open recent" in file menu not remembering recent docs in snow leopard

also not working in numbers, preview.
i just updated to 10.6.1 and still the same problem.
what have i done? how can i fix?
thanks

A behavior reported from one machine but not appearing on most of the other ones is not a bug.
It's a machine's oddity.
Here, Pages 's Recent items menu behaves flawlessly under 10.6.2.
The list is no longer stored in
com.apple.iWork.Pages.plist
but in
com.apple.iWork.Pages.LSSharedFileListplist
What may fool some of us is that the app behaves as if it has a counter which is resetted to zero when we apply the System's update.
I guess that because on my imac, when I look at it, the plist contained ten file descriptors but only three where displayed.
I deleted by hand the seven unused descriptors and then, the list evolded with the opening of files. And, most important, it matches the displayed menu.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mercredi 9 décembre 2009 16:41:53

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"open recent" from file menu not operating with snow leopard?

is anyone else having trouble with this?
did i accidentally disable this option? if so, how do i enable it?
thanks

PeterBreis0807 wrote:
I can understand why they have done this, although agree it is not a good idea.
Apple has made accessing the applications harder than need be, by nesting them inside the iWork folder. Without the manuals.
The User Guide says nothing about the need to leave the iWork components in the iWork '09 folder.
Is it difficult to understand that we don't buy three separate applications but one package?
The soluce of three apps in one package may have several reasons:
(1) developping Keynote then Pages then Numbers was more efficient in terms of cost than developping them as a single app.
(2) keeping them as separated items gives the ability to load an item smaller than a treeinone app so it requires less time and use less memory.
(3)…
If users are too numerous to break the 'rule', I'm afraid that Apple decide to pack the three apps in a single item so the problem would be definitely solved.
If someone want to have direct access to iWork components from the Applications menu, the correct soluce is to create aliases of thes apps and store these aliases in the Applications folder. Neat, simple and free of the described oddities.
as in the +Open With+ in File information,
The operating system apply a default setting for the "Open with" feature.
There is a problem for those which want an other setting.
But, as every user has its own needs, there will always be necessary to make individual choices.
Which app must open a .doc file ?
For me it's a moveit_to_thetrash tool
for some users, it's Word
for some, it's openOffice
for some, it's neoOffice
for some, it's Bean
for some, it's Pages
for some, it's TextEdit
and I know users having all of them installed.
Automatic link between a kind of doc and an app is an inaccessible dream.
The user action is required.
and the +Keyboard Shortcuts+ preferences.
The decision to apply this or that shortcut to a menu item is part of the design task. I think that it's the designer which must define them, not the user. You don't change the commands of your motorcar, I don't understand why you would change those of an application.
If you don't like the application GUI, use an other app.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) vendredi 11 septembre 2009 17:24:59
The user is here to use program, not to design them.

Save As/Open File dialog not remembering Recent Places

Ok this is annoying.
Working with files from a network server (PC). Whenever I try and open documents, save documents, or place images/text into a document (InDesign etc) the open/save/place dialog box that appears always defaults to the User/Documents folder. It seems to be that it is only the server folders that do this as it remembers Recent Places, and automatically goes to the last folder accessed in the dialog, for local files from my HD.
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Generally when creating a Word file from either a Mac or Win7 pc and opening it on two different machines (either one first) it always prompts that the file is open and will be opened as read only. However opening a CSS file does not prompt that it is alr

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Your server file handling has nothing, and really nothing to do with Adobe software. If files don't get locked for (over-)writing and/or lose connection to the program opening them, then your server is misconfigured. It's as plain and simple and that. Anything from "known file types"/ file associations not being set correctly, MIME types being botched, crooked user privileges and file permissions, missing Mac server extensions, delayed file writing on the server, generic network timeout issues and what have you. Either way, you have written a longwinded post with no real value since you haven't bothered to provide any proper technical info, most notably about the alleged server. Either way, the only way you can "fix" it is by straightening out your server and network configuration, not some magic switch in Adobe's software.
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