10.6: Clear Finder’s Recent Folders list at shut down

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I use the following method to automatically clean, at shut down time, the entries in the Finder's Go » Recent Folders menu entry. It cost me some work, but eventually it worked. Open Terminal and do the following:

$ cd /etc/
$ sudo nano rc.shutdown.local

When prompted, enter your admin password. In the nano editor, add the following lines (assuming the file doesn't yet exist):

#!/bin/bash

cd /Users/your_user/Library/Preferences/
defaults delete /Users/your_user/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder FXRecentFolders
chown your_user:your_group com.apple.finder.plist

And now some explanation. your_user is obviously the short nam...