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10.6: Clear Finder's Recent Folders list at shut down
Ok guys. Since you cannot imagine any useful application of this hint, let me just explain a little more the purpose of such a procedure. Imagine you have created a hidden folder or, even more an encrypted disk image, to store your very secret "work documents". You need to get rid of any history otherwise there would be tracks of your hidden folder. You can easily disable the history for most recent applications, files and folders located in the Apple menu (by System Preferences-> appearance) but not the Recent Folders list in the "Go" menu.
On this forum I found this solution but I thought it was not so efficient to have a crontab job running every minute. This one works like a charm, the shutdown process has not get longer and the execution is completely invisible.
By the way, since I am rather new to the Mac world and I would like to learn more, could you explain me please why a LogoutHook would be more appropriate than this? Is the rc.shutdown solution somehow deprecated?
Thank you all.
Bye
10.6: Clear Finder's Recent Folders list at shut down
a) thanks for the hint.. it gave me ideas for something similar I wanted to accomplish.
10.6: Clear Finder's Recent Folders list at shut down
a logout hook is more appropriate because it runs on every logout rather than just shutdown. it's also easier to customize on a multi-user system as you can reference the current user as $1 in a logout hook script. |
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