Recent Items menu is empty

After upgrading to Snow Leopard all iWork 09 applications have disabled the "open recent" menu. Any way to fix that? Thanks, M

The fact that the list appear to be blank at first run is normal.
If it remains empty, something is odd in your computer.
Look at:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2173126&tstart=0
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mercredi 23 septembre 2009 17:50:36

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I've been getting strange files in my Recent Items menu that I never opened. And when I try to open them, I can't. Here are some of the file names.
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HI,
Just recently (in the last couple of weeks) I have suddenly been getting duplicate entries in the recent items folder (not in the apple menu as has been discussed elsewhere). I have 2 entries for Disk Utility, ITunes, Terminal etc. I have checked the plist with Onyx and it says the syntax is OK. I have cleared all items in the list. It behaved fine for a few days then the duplicates reappeared again. Should I try deleting the plist file? I currently have the recent items settings for 30 Apps, 5 docs and no servers.
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Last thing to try, then, is rebuilding the LaunchServices database by running this one-line command in the Terminal app (copy & paste), and restart:
*/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchS ervices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user*

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The recent items menus on Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio neve update, cna clearing the menu doesn't help...how can I fix this?

don't know, but there are certain basic troubleshooting steps that might help. Delete FCP and DVDSP preferences using preference manager (go to digital rebellion's site for free download)
www.digitalrebellion.com
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Cache Out X will rebuild launch services. It's free.
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I am sorry that last message was vague. The problem that was happening until the other day was that pages, numbers, preview were not listing any of my recent items even though I had ten listed in the preferences. I tried everything to fix it to no avail then last week they started working again and I have no idea why.
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I've been searching for an answer to this question for the better part of 3 hours now. W
Several iterations of osx ago, there was the ability to separately limit how many recent items were shown for Applications, Documents and Servers. Over the years, I simply installed a newer version of osx on top, and surprisingly my recent items always eliminated the Documents from the list.
I've since done a clean install of mavericks after installing an SSD, and i've lost this small but important part of my work flow. No matter what I've tried to remove the documents from Recent Items, it always shows up. I can still boot into my old HDD (which is now installed as a supplementary drive and also updated and running mavericks 10.9.2), and see from clicking on the Apple Menu > Recent Items that it only displays Applications and Servers.
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The Apple menu is at the top left hand corner of your screen, click on it and about this Mac is the first choice.
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Thank you so much for the help!
Going by your solution, I was able to find the file location.
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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.
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I thought that Mac people were better than that! After using Mac's since 1985, I am SERIOUSLY frustrated with the lack of Mac I'm getting with Leopard. It's been terribly MICROSOFTED.
This *****!
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1. Don't get upset with Apple when the issue is with Adobe's code.
2. Take any opportunity where the system or an app does not work as you would like it to find a creative solution that works better for you than the built in options.
Also I feel your pain I have been there - and in the process discovered some truly amazing third party apps that suit my needs wonderfully - some of which have even been purchased by Apple and incorporated into the base operating system.

"Open recent..." menu always empty

Hi,
since i run Mac OS X Leopard the File > "Open recent..." menu is always empty although i have set the number of Recent items to 15 in System Preferences.
I thought this could be due to permission problems but Disk Utility claims that everything is alright.
I highly appreciate any ideas to solve this, because this is really annoying.
Thanks

IIRC, you have to set that within each application, using this Terminal command:
*defaults write com.XXXX."name of app" NSRecentDocumentsLimit YYY*
where XXX = company, "name of app" = self explanatory, and YYY is the desired integer value. E.g., for TextEdit, I used:
*defaults write com.apple.textedit NSRecentDocumentsLimit 30*
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