Designer File Open Dropdown List

[DaveLClarkI]

A bit of a trivial question, but... Is there a way I can clean up the designer's File / Open dropdown list to remove old references I won't ever be working with again? ...without having to clear the entire list? Thanks.

[Scott Klement]

This is stored in a cookie named "RecentFiles". I don't think we provide any tools to modify this cookie yourself (I don't think anyone has ever asked this question before)

You could potentially use one of the tools in your browser to edit this by hand -- it's just a little JSON document in the cookie, you could probably figure it out easily enough. Doing it this way is rather technical, but you're no stranger to that, Dave.

I just tried it, in Firebug. I go to the 'Cookies' tab, open up the 'RecentFiles' cookie, then right-click it and choose 'edit'. You'll see that it's an array of JSON objects. Each object in the array represents one line of the 'recent files' list (including fields for library, file and member). I can just delete the entire object (from { to }, and also delete the comma if needed to make it proper JSON format). Once I've done that, if I re-load the designer window, it sends my modified cookie to the server, and gets it back with the cleaned up list.

Of course, clearing your cookies would wipe out the list entirely, which is definitely a lot easier. And probably would be recommended for someone who is less comfortable with JSON format.

[DaveLClarkI]

Thanks very much for the heads up. ;-)