Adding Recent/Favorite Items folder to the Dock in Leopard
In Leopard you now have the ability to add several types of "recent/favorite items" to the Dock. To add a folder like this to the Dock, open up a terminal window and type the following and then press Enter:
defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add '{ "tile-data" = { "list-type" = 1; }; "tile-type" = "recents-tile"; }'
Once that command completes, type the following command in your terminal window and press Enter:
killall Dock
Once you do this, you'll have a new Folder on your Dock. By default, this folder will show the Recent Applications. You can right click on this folder and select from the following options:
Recent Applications
Recent Documents
Recent Servers
Favorite Volumes
Favorite Items
But what if you want to have multiple of these folders so that you don't have to keep right-clicking to change what is shown? Turns out you can run the commands above multiple times and each time you run the command, a new folder will be added. So for example, you can run it three times so that you have separate folders for you Favorite Items, Recent Applications, and Recent Documents.
I find this to be very handy.
defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add '{ "tile-data" = { "list-type" = 1; }; "tile-type" = "recents-tile"; }'
Once that command completes, type the following command in your terminal window and press Enter:
killall Dock
Once you do this, you'll have a new Folder on your Dock. By default, this folder will show the Recent Applications. You can right click on this folder and select from the following options:
Recent Applications
Recent Documents
Recent Servers
Favorite Volumes
Favorite Items
But what if you want to have multiple of these folders so that you don't have to keep right-clicking to change what is shown? Turns out you can run the commands above multiple times and each time you run the command, a new folder will be added. So for example, you can run it three times so that you have separate folders for you Favorite Items, Recent Applications, and Recent Documents.
I find this to be very handy.
| Rating: | 100% positive, 11 total Votes |
| Categories: | Leopard Dock customization Mac |
| Added: | on Nov 14, 2007 at 2:38 pm |
| Added By: | an anonymous user |
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I was wondering is it possible to have also Recent Folders?
Also any tweak to have a Recent Folders on the Toolbar of every window?
And finally in Tiger when, in any app, like Textedit, and I open a File/Save As and want to save the file, there used to be a possibility to choose which Recent Places, and choice was 20, now in Leopard only 5 last recent pales are shown
I m not talking about Recent Items in the Apple Menu