[Skim-app-users] How can I increase the "Open Recent" count please ?

[Roger DuBois]

Hello,

I process an enormous number of files per day and it would be useful to me to see ‘where I’ve been’ and the “Open Recent” menu only displays the last 10 entries which is insufficient for me. I looked for a hidden preference with...

defaults read net.sourceforge.skim-app.skim SKMaximumDocumentPageHistoryCount

but got no result - so I tried to set a <Key> with

defaults write net.sourceforge.skim-app.skim SKMaximumDocumentPageHistoryCount 40

and then checked with

defaults read net.sourceforge.skim-app.skim SKMaximumDocumentPageHistoryCount

which gave me the result “40”

But I still only have 10 files in the "Open Recent” menu!

It would really help a lot if I could increase this substantially, is there any way I can do this please?

Is it possible to rebuild Skim from source and change it like that maybe?

Any help would be most welcome, I could not find anything in the list going back about 500 entries

Cheers, Roger



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[Christiaan Hofman]

Post by Roger DuBois
Hello,
I process an enormous number of files per day and it would be useful to me to see ‘where I’ve been’ and the “Open Recent” menu only displays the last 10 entries which is insufficient for me. I looked for a hidden preference with...

defaults read net.sourceforge.skim-app.skim SKMaximumDocumentPageHistoryCount

but got no result - so I tried to set a <Key> with

defaults write net.sourceforge.skim-app.skim SKMaximumDocumentPageHistoryCount 40

and then checked with

defaults read net.sourceforge.skim-app.skim SKMaximumDocumentPageHistoryCount

which gave me the result “40”
But I still only have 10 files in the "Open Recent” menu!
It would really help a lot if I could increase this substantially, is there any way I can do this please?
Is it possible to rebuild Skim from source and change it like that maybe?
Any help would be most welcome, I could not find anything in the list going back about 500 entries
Cheers, Roger

You can’t, this is managed by the system.

Christiaan


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[Carsten Bormann]

System preferences, General, "Recent Items".
The highest I could put there via the prefpane was 50, but a "defaults
write" with the right key might be able to go beyond that.

Grüße, Carsten

Post by Christiaan Hofman
You can’t, this is managed by the system.

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[Bill Shack]

Post by Christiaan Hofman
You can’t, this is managed by the system.

You can use a system utility like Tinker Tool to do this. Mine is set at 15. TT gives choices up to 30. You may be able to do a terminal command to increase further.
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