Reputation:

remove xcode recent projects from dock menu

I would like to remove from Mac OS-X taskbar (Dock) the XCode's recent project menu items.
Everywhere I am searching it says the File->Open Recent->Clear Menu it will clear, but not.
It doesn't clear from Dock, it clears from inside the XCode Recent menu.
I believe I should dig somewhere is OS filesystem, but I don't know where.

It was an XCode 4.2 intalled, I did a complete uninstall and installed version 4.3.
But I couldn't clear the Dock's projects menu at version 4.3 either!

Upvotes: 89

Answers (6)

Giau Huynh

Reputation: 2140

Open Xcode then choose: File -> Open Recent -> Clear Menu
Open Terminal then type: killall Dock

Upvotes: 2

Hoang Phan

Reputation: 81

Turned out that all you need to do is:

Clear Recent Menu with Xcode
killall Dock

Upvotes: 8

marcprux

Reputation: 10365

Here's what works for me:

Launch Xcode
Select File->Open Recent->Clear Menu
Right-click the Xcode icon and select "Show All Windows". You should now see only your current document in the recents list at the bottom
Quit Xcode.
The recents list should now only be populated with your single current project.

Upvotes: 203

Nicolas Miari

Reputation: 16256

Warning: This solution will wipe the passwords of all your developer accounts in Xcode (Xcode > Preferences > Accounts); If you apply this method, you will have to re-enter them afterwards.

This is what worked for me in El Capitan / Xcode 7. In Terminal:

% defaults delete com.apple.dt.Xcode
% killall Dock

(Source: https://simon.heimlicher.com/articles/2011/07/26/disable-recent-items)

Strangely, the recommended command:

% defaults delete com.apple.dt.Xcode RecentDocuments

...gives the message:

Domain (com.apple.dt.Xcode) not found. Defaults have not been changed.

...so I removed the RecentDocuments part and decided to go nuclear. Haven't checked what else is nuked (other than the passwords mentioned above), so use at your own risk.

Upvotes: 4