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I have been pulling my hair out trying to clear the menu that shows the recent (and not so recent) videos for Quicktime in the dock.
Running El Capitan and Quicktime 10.4
I'm trying to clear the "recent items" that show up when one does a right-click on the quicktime icon in the dock.
Instructions I found on the web is to:
1. Clear "Recent Items" under the apple
2. Clear "Recent Items" under Quicktime Player > file > open recent
3. Close Quicktime and do a right-click on the QT icon in the dock and remove from dock
Then, when I launch QT again, the recent menu is supposed to be clear but it's not.
Still has the same videos listed.
From what I can tell, I no longer have these videos on the Mac.
When I try to play them nothing happens and when I go to "Show all windows" with right click on QT icon in the dock, these videos show a generic icon rather than the beginning of the video clip like the more recent ones.
So I think that may be the problem - these QT videos were deleted but the recent items list lingers, but only in the dock listing - all the others I mentioned show nothing for recent items.
I'm tempted to trash QT 10.4, but where can I download and install a replacement version - I don't want to do a new install of El Capitan.
There must be some place on the Mac where the QT recent item list is stored; maybe just go there and delete the ones hanging in there?
Running El Capitan and Quicktime 10.4
I'm trying to clear the "recent items" that show up when one does a right-click on the quicktime icon in the dock.
Instructions I found on the web is to:
1. Clear "Recent Items" under the apple
2. Clear "Recent Items" under Quicktime Player > file > open recent
3. Close Quicktime and do a right-click on the QT icon in the dock and remove from dock
Then, when I launch QT again, the recent menu is supposed to be clear but it's not.
Still has the same videos listed.
From what I can tell, I no longer have these videos on the Mac.
When I try to play them nothing happens and when I go to "Show all windows" with right click on QT icon in the dock, these videos show a generic icon rather than the beginning of the video clip like the more recent ones.
So I think that may be the problem - these QT videos were deleted but the recent items list lingers, but only in the dock listing - all the others I mentioned show nothing for recent items.
I'm tempted to trash QT 10.4, but where can I download and install a replacement version - I don't want to do a new install of El Capitan.
There must be some place on the Mac where the QT recent item list is stored; maybe just go there and delete the ones hanging in there?