How to remove history from programs?

[geekygeek]

Say I saved a file in textedit then a few days later I deleted it. When I launch text edit and when I right click (secondary click) on it it shows the name of my document but I cannot open it. How can I get rid of this?

 

[GGJstudios]

File > Open Recent > Clear Menu

 

[geekygeek]

doesn't work, it won't let me click clear menu.

 

[GGJstudios]

doesn't work, it won't let me click clear menu.

Are you running an admin account? Have you tried restarting? You could also try quitting TextEdit, then restarting it after deleting this file:

/Users/yourusername/Library/Preferences/com.apple.TextEdit.plist​

 

[geekygeek]

thanks it works