macOS Programatically clearing recent items list in Apple Menu

[McBgnr]

Hello,

I want to write a program to delete recent items list displayed in the Apple Menu.

All I could find is that the com.apple.recentitems.plist maintains a list of the recent items. However, deleting this file does not clear the recent items list. I am now looking for something which could clear the recentitems list which is loaded in parent process memory.

Any suggestions to solve the problem are welcome.

 

[kainjow]

Spotlight LSSharedFileList.h - looks like it can be done with the functions in that file.

 

[MKSinSA]

Hello,

I want to write a program to delete recent items list displayed in the Apple Menu.

All I could find is that the com.apple.recentitems.plist maintains a list of the recent items. However, deleting this file does not clear the recent items list. I am now looking for something which could clear the recentitems list which is loaded in parent process memory.

Any suggestions to solve the problem are welcome.

A jumping off place is decoding the com.apple.recentitems.plist file then converting the code into Applescript.

HTH ... Cheers! 😎

 

[`lowell`]

All I could find is that the com.apple.recentitems.plist maintains a list of the recent items. However, deleting this file does not clear the recent items list.

NSUserDefaults?