Strange files in Recent Items menu

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.
AE39.staple
GHAEA.staple
Does anybody recognize any of these kind of files?

As far as I understand it, the app is just an installer and it should only run once, to install the firmware on your DVD drive, but a lot of users have had problems with it running every time they log in (normally it should bring up a window). I tried running it manually and it does leave those same files in my Recent Items menu, as you described.
First take a look in your login items (System Preferences->Accounts) and look for a reference to SuperDrive Update 2.1. If one exists then deleting it should solve the problem. If you want, you can then move the app to the trash (although leaving it be does no harm). If it's not in the list, post back.

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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.

Recent Items Menu

is there a way to pin files to the recent items menu so that they don't get removed when clearing the list?

Hi, and welcome to the Palm Community Forums.
The only thing I know of which is similar to that is a list of recent Palm applications which you have opened. You can bring it up by pressing and holding the "Home" button (the top right button on the front of the Centro).
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Duplicate Items in Recent Items menu

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.
Thanks for any help or suggestions.
Peter

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*

Prevent .ichat files in Recent Items

Hey all...
Just started using iChat over Adium. So far, so good... but I'm noticing in my "recent items" (under Apple menu), it's filled up with .ichat files.
Is there a way to preclude .ichat files from showing up in Recent Items? I rarely need to go back to a particular chat, but often need to reopen a recent application file.
Thanks!
Charlie

Hi,
There is nothing in iChat that controls this.
Where does Adium keep saved Chats ?
iChat keeps them in a folder called iChats in the Users Document folder (Hard Drive/Users/(your account/little house icon)/Documents/iChats) by default.
If Adium does not keep them in Documents (even in a sub folder) then it may pay to change the iChat Location.
I have not tried to change the location in iChat for some time as it did not work that well in iChat 2 and 3.
It is set in iChat Menu > Preferences > Messages and the "Save Chats Automatically To (Drop Down)"
I just tried this in iChat 4 using the "Other" Option in that Drop down that lets you navigate away from the Documents folder and Create a new folder if required.
I created a new one on the Desktop (Called iChatDesktop to prevent naming issues).
However this still put them in the Recent Items list of the Finder
I had thought the Appearance Settings effected apps as well as th Finder > Recent Items lists
But reducing the System Preferences > Appearance to 5 Documents only reduced the Finder's list and not iChat's own list - even with a restart of iChat.
(On Checking I may have done that with Tinker Tool)
Tinker Tool does not offer any exclusion list either under the Finder or General sections/icons/tabs.
7:52 PM Tuesday; February 8, 2011
Please, if posting Logs, do not post any Log info after the line "Binary Images for iChat"

Why doesn't the "recent items" menu update?

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
Do other programs' recent items update? Does the systems recent items in the apple menu update? If not, it's probably an os problem rather than an final cut studio problem. You might try repairing permissions in the diskutility.

Duplicates in Recent Items menu ?

I have two or three duplicate items listed when I check my RECENT ITEMS under the Apple Menu. I have cleared the menu, but the duplicates return over time as I use applications. Any idea how to correct this problem? Thanks in advance for any assistance.
NOTE: Voice Over is not turned on.

Cache Out X will rebuild launch services. It's free.
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/14850

Recent Items menu will not remember my recent items

On MacOS X 10.5 going into the preferences and changing recent items did not work. I set it to none closed it then reopened it and set it back to 10. I even deleted the com.apple.recentitems.plist in the preference folder and restarted and it still did not change the recent items listed. Please help this is annoying.

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.
Thanks for you time.

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

How do I remove "Recent Items" Documents from the apple menu?

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.
Try as hard as I can, I can't simply figure out how to remove the documents from the recent items menu. I've tried editing the com.apple.recentitems.plist file, to show 0 items for documnets, but this never seems to work. (I've since read that this file is simply rewritten on logout.) Strangely, if I go into the old setup System Preferences, Recent Items: it is showing as None. I also suspect that maybe I used Tinker Tools or some other utility to change some command line preference (using the gui) several years back. Not sure how I could investigate what would need to be done to compare files or otherwise figure out how to remove the documents section from the recent items menu.
It's starting to drive me crazy. Anyone?

The Apple menu is at the top left hand corner of your screen, click on it and about this Mac is the first choice.
Click twice on Version to get serial number.

Modify Recent Items list

I open a lot of torrent files that I really don't ever need to open again.
I was wondering if there was a way to prevent these items from cluttering up the Recent Items menu.
I've looked at the com.apple.recentitems.plst but it just seems to be a list.
Is there a way to exclude certain document types from showing up in the Recent Items menu - sort of like you might with spotlight or a smart folder?
thanks.

AFAIK, it's the norm. Recent documents only displays ones previously opened, not their current status or whether they still exist.

Documents (pictures) 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.

I cannot open a recent item. Is it lost forever?

I had an important document that my MacBook autosaved for me, so I opened the autosaved version and began editing it extensively, after finalizing it I (stupidly) saved it under the same autosave name. Now my document folder is only displaying the original version of the document and the autosaved version is not in the folder and does not come up as option when I search for it in the finder. I figured all hope was lost until I clicked on my apple "recent items" menu and there it is!...but i can click on it all day and it doesn't open. Is there anything I can do? (It is a TextEdit doc file) -Cal

Perhaps you can find a more up-to-date version in Time Machine?

Clear recent items is broken in 10.8 (major privacy issue!)

Clearing recent items is now completely broken under Mountain Lion.
Try this experiment:
1. Open an image in Preview.app.
2. File > Open Recent > Clear Menu
So is it gone now? No!!! They are not gone. You can still see what somebody previous viewed in that app by going to one of 2 places:
1. Right-click the app's icon in the Dock and recent items are ALWAYS there, never cleared.
2. Use Mission Control to view Application Windows and you still see recent items at the bottom of your screen.
Previously in Lion, this occured, but there was a workaround that involved clearing recent items, quitting the app, then relaunching the app, then the recent stuff wouldn't be visible anywhere. This workaround no longer works.
If you need to be guarenteed privacy with certain images like confidential bussiness documents, any embaressing photos or dirty pictures, do NOT upgrade to Mountain Lion because it will show those to anyone who happens to be nearby when you use Expose / Mission Control and you will not be able to work around it anymore.
If by chance this is not a bug and was intended behavior, tell Apple to stop it (or find yourself a new operating sytem that doesn't violate privacy.)

First, in response to Adrian Clarke's suggesetion of clearing the system-wide recents and that didn't work for me, but thanks.
Regardless, I think I found a permenant solution for Preview (but not TextEdit).
1. Go into ~/Library/Preferences
2. Search the folder for the phrase "Preview"
3. The first time I did the search, I found 3 or 4 things related to Apple's Preview application. I deleted them all.
4. Go to Terminal and type "killall Dock"
NOTE: Under Mountain Lion it appears (to me at least) the old "killall Dock" command does not always make the Dock relaunch automatically as it did in previous versions of OS X, so you might have to logout/login as well.
Going back to look at them again hours later, not all the files have rebounded or been recreated. So I can't tell you all their names exactly. I can only tell you the names of the files that get remade, which again isn't all the files that I deleted.
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.preview.LSSharedFileList.plist
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Preview.SandboxedPersistentURLs.LSSharedFileList .plist
Again, the paths of the other files are lost since I didn't note them before deleting them, but just search your Preferences folder for "Preview".
Now TextEdit was exhibiting the same undesierable behavior as well, so I tried doing the same for TextEdit: Search preferences and deleting anything related to it.
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.TextEdit.LSSharedFileList.plist
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.TextEdit.LSSharedFileList.plist.lockfile
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.TextEdit.plist
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.TextEdit.plist.L2YUl2h
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.TextEdit.plist.lockfile
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.TextEdit.SandboxedPersistentURLs.LSSharedFileLis t.plist
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.TextEdit.SandboxedPersistentURLs.LSSharedFileLis t.plist.lockfile
After deleting them all and using TextEdit for a bit, the only files that rebounded were:
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.TextEdit.LSSharedFileList.plist
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.TextEdit.SandboxedPersistentURLs.LSSharedFileLis t.plist
But does it work on TextEdit? Sorta but not really. It works until you perform a reboot, then the old problem returns, afflicting TextEdit again. But Preview continues to behave correctly after a reboot. Why these results are so inconsitent is truly confusing. I suspect there's a bug (or multiple bugs). If anybody can offer a solution for TextEdit, I'd be very appreciative. In the meantime, if this bug affects you, maybe consider switching from TextEdit to another app until this gets fixed.

"Recent Items" doesn't show all recent items

I have a file type I use commonly that never shows up on the Recent Items list. Why?
Actually, none of my InDesign files show up. Is this just Mac acting like Microsoft and only showing recently used MICROSOFT files instead of all files?
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 *****!
Not to mention wasting hours of my time finding absolutely NO DATA about this in the help, or the knowledge base (talk about copying windows).

I just tried it and my InDesign files show up in the Apple menu's Recent folder after I open them using the Finder - they do not appear after being saved or opened using Adobe's interface to do. Adobe must be bypassing the standard Open and Save file dialogs used by the operating system and in doing so these file operations are not cataloged by the Finder for the recent items menu.
Do you have the sidebar turned on in your Finder folders? There is a section for custom search results or smart folders or whatever they are being called today - where you can store a search for all InDesign Files created in the past week or month or whatever criteria - could even use a tag in the file name by project to have separate folders for each - and you could even go into your Library folder (under your user name) and take that saved search and make it a shortcut on your doc or using an App such as FruitMenu from Unsanity.com you could even make this a custom item on the Apple menu.
Two pieces of advice for you.
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.

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