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How to clear recent documents in Fedora 15 Gnome 3

By on July 1, 2011

Truncate the file containing your the desktop bookmarks.

"" > ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel

Make it immutable.

sudo chattr +i ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel

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12 responses to “How to clear recent documents in Fedora 15 Gnome 3”

  1. Siddharta
    Siddharta July 4, 2011 at 22:57 |

    Mmmmmh, you have gave me some ideas for my Debian installations. Thank you!

    Sidd.

  2. Randell
    Randell July 5, 2011 at 09:30 |

    If I am not mistaken, the file containing the recent docs in Debian is also “recently-used.xbel”. Maybe you can do a “find” and perform the same operations. =)

  3. bbneo
    bbneo July 5, 2011 at 18:59 |

    How do you *see* your recent documents? (Please don’t tell me that this new search tool is the only way?) Otherwise, I like Gnome 3 a lot… still adjusting, but I do appreciate the fact that many “double-click” operations are now transformed into a mouse gesture and a single-click.

  4. Randell
    Randell July 5, 2011 at 20:06 |

    Hello bbeo! Unfortunately, the new search tools is also the only way I know to look for the recent documents. But I rarely use the recent documents, even back in Gnome 2. Most of the files I access are mostly source code anyway, which is already in my IDE or in my text editor’s recent items. I also depend on my neatly-organized directory structure to easily find the files that I need.

    I’m also still adjusting. I even get confused at times when switching between my office machine, which is on Fedora 14 Gnome 2 and home machine, which is on Fedora 15 Gnome 3.

  5. no one
    no one July 10, 2011 at 23:01 |

    This doesn’t work. It is simply re-created when a file is opened.

  6. Pawe? Kosi?ski
    Pawe? Kosi?ski July 11, 2011 at 02:42 |

    Instead of first and second command you can just use: “0 > ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel”.

  7. Randell
    Randell July 12, 2011 at 16:27 |

    @no one, restarting the Gnome Shell might do the trick. Press Alt+f2, then press r, then press Enter.

    @Pawel, nice catch. I modified the instructions to reflect your suggestion.

  8. tamashebi
    tamashebi September 25, 2011 at 18:01 |

    i have this error on fedora 15 with gnome 3
    chattr: No such file or directory while trying to stat /root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel

  9. Randell
    Randell September 25, 2011 at 18:25 |

    @tamashebi, the path is for the non-root user. I sure hope you’re not logging in as root all the time.

  10. DaVince
    DaVince October 25, 2011 at 05:08 |

    0 > ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel
    doesn’t actually work for me, but changing 0 to “” did the trick.

  11. Brandon
    Brandon December 29, 2011 at 23:01 |

    Toot up the computer; however DO NOT LOG IN. press ctrl atl f3

    then you will see a log in screen for a terminal. log in as the root user.

    the type the following

    rm /home/YourUserName/.local/share/recently-used.xbel

    type:
    exit

    press: ctrl alt f2 or ctrl alt f1

    which ever one works to bring you back to your gui log in.

    you should notice your history is wiped clean.

  12. Celso M
    Celso M January 8, 2012 at 08:12 |

    This actually disabled all recent documents permanently. I actually just wanted to clear the current list. Any way to re-enable it?

    Thanks!

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