Recent Places list under Save As...

When I do a Save or Save As..... the Mac window usually defaults to a folder location for placing the file. Maybe the last folder I was in. When you click on the Folder pop-down window you see the path to the current folder.. .But you also see a list of folders and locations called RECENT PLACES. Can someone help with this? I am frequently saving emails and word docs back and forth to different locations. But when I do so, my Recent Places list does NOT show the recent folders I've been to. It presents some folders, all right, but I cannot figure how it has selected those. (If you type "Recent Places" into the Mac's built-in HELP search window, it produces no text!) How do you control this feature -- set default folders, control how many recent places are shown, and in what order? (the kinds of things we used to do with Boomerang!) I found a November 2005 post here where someone suggested removing some "Launch Service" pref files that are supposedly in the Caches folder. Not on my mac they aren't. Help anyone? A tech note somewhere on this OS feature?

Hi, David.
You wrote: "I am frequently saving emails and word docs back and forth to different locations. But when I do so, my Recent Places list does NOT show the recent folders I've been to."How this list is handled appears to be a function of the given application, not a System-wide function.
For example, in one application I use, the list under Recent Places shows folders into which I've recently saved documents edited in that application. In the case of TextEdit, I can't determine exactly what logic it's using to populate Recent Places.
As you note, it's undocumented in Mac Help. The only documentation I've found for this is in the Apple Human Interface Guidelines, in the section concerning "Dialogs," where it is defined for both the Open and Save dialogs as:"...the five most recent folders the user opened or saved documents to..."and where it is further qualified by"Note: Recent Places (in the Where pop-up menu of a Save dialog) does not record folders selected in Choose dialogs."This may explain the behavior I've observed in TextEdit where the Recent Places are not folders in which I saved TextEdit documents, but other folders where the Save dialog was used in other applications. This list also differs from the Finder > Go > Recent Folders list.
Since the behavior can be customized at the application level (per the developer documentation) this would also appear to explain why, in some applications, I see a list of Recent Places that is specific to that application.
You wrote: "How do you control this feature -- set default folders, control how many recent places are shown, and in what order?"Bottom line: it does not appear to be something you can tailor. "Recent Places" either:
- Works in an application-specific way, defined by the developer through customization of the dialogs and coding.
- Is built, by default, based on other locations from which/to which you've opened/saved files using the Open/Save dialogs.
If you want to create a set of locations that will work across the Open and Save dialogs in all applications that use such, add those folders to your Finder Sidebar. You can then select them from the Sidebar that appears in the Open and Save dialogs.
Good luck!
Dr. Smoke
Author: Troubleshooting Mac® OS X

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