OS X Recent Items

Terry Judd tsj at unimelb.edu.au
Thu Apr 23 01:43:14 EDT 2009


Jim - are you sure there aren't any bits in that file that look like this...

<key>apps</key>
    <array>
        <string>/Applications/BBEdit Lite 6.1/BBEdit Lite 6.1 </string>
        <string>/Applications/Internet Explorer.app</string>
        <string>/Applications/Safari.app</string>
        <string>/Applications/Netscape.app</string>
        <string>/Applications/TextEdit.app</string>
        <string>/Applications/Revolution 2.5.1/Revolution.app</string>
        <string>/Applications/Mail.app</string>
        <string>/Applications/DragThing 4.6.1/DragThing.app</string>
        <string>/Volumes/Projects/Current/PVC/Builds/PVC
0.9.5/MacOSX/PVC.app</string>
        <string>/Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Microsoft Word</string>
    </array>

Or this...

<key>docs</key>
    <array>
        <string>/Volumes/Projects/Current/ATS/ATS inter
presentation/s1w1-4/log_lab1a2.mdhs.unimelb.edu.au.xml</string>
        <string>/Volumes/Projects/Current/ATS/ATS inter
presentation/s1w1-4/log_lab1a1.mdhs.unimelb.edu.au.xml</string>
        <string>/Volumes/Projects/Current/ATS/ATS inter
presentation/temp.xml</string>
        
<string>/Users/tezza/Library/Preferences/Explorer/History.html</string>
        <string>/Volumes/Projects/Current/ATS/ATS inter
presentation/temp.xml</string>
        <string>/Volumes/Projects/Current/ATS/ATS inter
presentation/temp.txt</string>
        <string>/Volumes/Projects/Current/ATS/ATS inter
presentation/temp.html</string>
        <string>/Volumes/Projects/Current/ATS/ATS_inter
(TAG)/TAG+.rev</string>
        <string>/Users/tezza/Library/Mozilla/Profiles/Terry
Judd/ouuygrt4.slt/cookies.txt</string>
        <string>/Volumes/Projects/Current/ATS/ATS inter
presentation/ATS_inter.rev</string>
    </array>

...because they¹re pretty easy to parse. Having said that, these snippets
are out of an old recent items file I had lying about. I couldn¹t locate one
from my current (10.5) system.

Terry...



On 23/04/09 3:32 PM, "jim sims" <sims at ezpzapps.com> wrote:

> OS X has the following file that holds information about recent items
> (applications and files)  com.apple.recentitem.plist
> 
> An example taken from that .plist file is the following. It refers to
> an image, and what I guess is the path to the icon to that file and
> the pathway to the file itself. At least I hope that is what they are.
> 
> If my guess above is correct, can anyone tell me how to convert them
> into text I can use? If they are paths, into a useable path to the file?
> 
> Name:
> sample_1.jpg
> 
> Alias:
> <00000000 00c60003 00000000 c42cec16 0000482b 00000000 024cc048
> 024cc094 0000c614 517a0000 00000920 fffe0000 00000000 0000ffff
> ffff0001 0010024c c0480002 ed9e0002 ed930000 60b7000e 001a000c
> 00730061 006d0070 006c0065 005f0031 002e006a 00700067 000f000a
> 0004006d 00610069 006e0012 00385573 6572732f 6a696d73 696d732f
> 4465736b 746f702f 64617368 626f6172 64735f52 6f737369 20636f70
> 792f7361 6d706c65 5f312e6a 70670013 00012f00 00150002 000effff 0000>
> 
> Icon:
> <496d6752 000000d4 00000000 4642494c 000000c8 00000002 00000000
> 00000000 00b80003 00000000 c42cec16 0000482b 00000000 00005227
> 0007fb39 0000c323 8da20000 00000920 fffe0000 00000000 0000ffff
> ffff0001 00100000 52270000 52220000 52210000 0768000e 00140009
> 006a0070 00650067 002e0069 0063006e 0073000f 000a0004 006d0061
> 0069006e 00120035 4170706c 69636174 696f6e73 2f507265 76696577
> 2e617070 2f436f6e 74656e74 732f5265 736f7572 6365732f 6a706567
> 2e69636e 73000013 00012f00 ffff0000>
> 
> 
> sims
> 
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