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Authored by: renderhead on Mar 02, '05 11:36:46AM

The Apple menu "Recent Items" is only updated when you open a file through the Finder. It doesn't update when you open a file through an application. For example, I often open my Word documents from the "File -> Recent Files" menu in Word. When I quit Word, I no longer have access to that recent file list.

This script checks the "modified" date instead, which will update the list whenever a file is created or saved within the target directories.



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