Leopard limits the maximum number of Recent Places in the pop-up menu of the Open/Save dialog windows to a mere five items. Following this excellent tutorial that robg wrote on finding hidden preferences, I figured out that if there is a hidden preference somewhere, it must live in /System » Library » Frameworks » AppKit.framework » Versions » C » AppKit. Additionally, since nearly all apps in Leopard use the Cocoa Open/Save dialogs, it was obvious that the preference key likely follows the Cocoa naming scheme and begins with NSNav, just like the rest of the bunch.

And the winner is: NSNavRecentPlacesLimit. To apply, type the following in the Terminal, where 12 would be the number of recent places to display in the Open/Save dialogs: 
defaults write ....



  Add to digg
  Add to Reddit
  Add to Slashdot
  Email this Article
  Add to StumbleUpon





		

		
	


			
« Force the Dock to only show running applications


			
 Mac News: Apple Juice: Macworld a Wistful Love-In for Apple Fans »


		

		




		
[Read more...]






					

						This entry was posted

						 

						on Thursday, January 8th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
						and is filed under News.

						You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. 

						

						
							You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.