Recent items (Finder) not changing

[welshred]

Hi,

I like to have as many recent items as possible, Mountain Lion has a default of 5.
I changed this on my old mac to 50 but despite changing the number to 50 on my current mac it only ever shows 5?

It is set to 50 in recent items under general settings in system prefs but just 5 showing in finder?

I am on OS X 10.8.5

Any ideas?

 

[toMACsh]

Not sure if this holds true for Mountain Lion, but in Leopard / Snow Leopard, most menu function preferences are held in the system user interface plist file. It might be corrupt, thus not allowing modification. To find out, go to your Home folder / Library / Preferences

Move the file com.apple.systemuiserver.plist to your Desktop and then Restart.

Give the Recent Items a tweak and see if it sticks.

 

[chscag]

I like to have as many recent items as possible, Mountain Lion has a default of 5.
I changed this on my old mac to 50 but despite changing the number to 50 on my current mac it only ever shows 5?

I believe that has been the system default since Snow Leopard or Lion. In any event, download the free OnyX from here and change it from "Parameters, General". Also it's a great maintenance and optimization app. (And the only one we recommend.)

 

[toMACsh]

I believe that has been the system default since Snow Leopard or Lion.

Maybe Lion. I have more on Snow Leopard. Didn't do anything special to get that.