Comments on: Adding Flexible Recent Items Stack to Mac Dock

By: fifty eight | 58 | Recent and Favorite Items Stack

fifty eight | 58 | Recent and Favorite Items Stack — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 04:40:10 +0000

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By: Aman

Aman — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:32:16 +0000

I did this and it woks, but the Dock shows only recent application. I want only recent Documents/files.. how do we do that ?

By: nadeem.shabir

nadeem.shabir — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 06:32:01 +0000

Esther,
just copy each of the three commands in your terminal, dont copy the three lines that begin with # these are just comments.

So if you want the recent items tile paste the following line into your terminal and press enter:

defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add ‘{ “tile-data” = { “list-type” = 1; }; “tile-type” = “recents-tile”; }’

If you want the highlight when you hover over an item paste the following line into the terminal and press enter:

defaults write com.apple.dock mouse-over-hilte-stack -boolean YES

finally you have to paste this line into the terminal and press enter in order for the changes to take effect:

killall Dock

… I hope that clarifies things.

By: Esther

Esther — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:34:55 +0000

hi. i’m not a computer whiz so i don’t really know how to do this, but do you just copy the whole thing into the terminal?

By: John Clark

John Clark — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:47:50 +0000

After my last Restart all of my Favorite Items are duplicated!! What would cause this to happen?
I deleted the duplicates in the Finder Places pane, however there are still 2 desktop icons in the Recent Items folder…???

By: Rhys

Rhys — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:56:42 +0000

That is utterly awesome! I love it, and like you, I especially like the highlighting. Oh, and thanks to Rob for explaining the quotes thing.

By: John Clark

John Clark — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:29:27 +0000

Thanks for the help…It now works great.

By: Rob Styles

Rob Styles — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:31:19 +0000

LiveWriter has helpfully turned your single quotes into smart 6 and 9 quotes in command 3. This stops it working if you just copy and paste into terminal.

Other than that – Thanks

By: John Clark

John Clark — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:10:48 +0000

I got this error:
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `}’