Recently Accessed Files
Scenario
Your laptop was sitting on a public table while you got up to answer a phone call. As you returned to the table you see the person who was sitting near operating your computer and quickly going back to their seat. You have several documents with personal information on your Desktop and you want to make sure that none of these files were recently accessed.
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.recentitems.plist
“This file holds recently accessed files and applications that the user has accessed via the "Finder" application.
Copy and Paste this into the terminal
plutil -p /Users/$USER/Library/Preferences/com.apple.recentitems.plist
By searching using Command + F and entering "Name" you can quickly jump to each entry for recently opened files or programs. Each recent application is listed in sequential order starting from “0”.
Your laptop was sitting on a public table while you got up to answer a phone call. As you returned to the table you see the person who was sitting near operating your computer and quickly going back to their seat. You have several documents with personal information on your Desktop and you want to make sure that none of these files were recently accessed.
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.recentitems.plist
“This file holds recently accessed files and applications that the user has accessed via the "Finder" application.
Copy and Paste this into the terminal
plutil -p /Users/$USER/Library/Preferences/com.apple.recentitems.plist
By searching using Command + F and entering "Name" you can quickly jump to each entry for recently opened files or programs. Each recent application is listed in sequential order starting from “0”.