How to Clear Recent Items from the macOS Dock

Sometimes recently used catalogs and sessions take a lot of space in the right-click dock menu (Recent Items) and you need to delete those. Luckily, there are two ways to do that.

Table of Contents

• Clear Recent Items in Capture One
• Advanced: Clear Recent Items using Terminal
• Can I Delete Specific Items Only?

Clear Recent Items in Capture One

The simplest way is to go to File > Open Recent > Clear Menu

This will clear the recent items in the Dock for Capture One. 

Advanced: Clear Recent Items using Terminal

If clearing recents the regular way wasn't successful, or the Dock still shows old items, use this method. What it does is that it safely deletes the sharedfilelistd file which stands for Shared File List Daemon and manages recent items in dock and Finder for Capture One. Note that your catalogs and sessions stay intact, as well as your images — only recent entries for used catalogs and sessions will be removed. 

1. Quit Capture One
2. Delete ~/Library/Application Support/com.apple.sharedfilelist/com.apple.LSSharedFileList.ApplicationRecentDocuments/com.captureone.captureone16.sfl3

Note that there are 2 Library folders, and you need to access the one that is under your username.
In Finder, go to the Go menu, select Go To Folder (or hit CMD+Shift+G) and enter the following path:

~/Library/Application Support/Capture One

3. Open Terminal and run this command:
killall sharedfilelistd


 

Can I Delete Specific Items Only?

Currently, macOS does not support removing individual recent items from the Dock. Workarounds like opening additional files to "push out" unwanted ones exist but are manual and imprecise.

If you want to populate the Recent Items with new entries, it is easier to go and start each catalog or session, so that new items will "push out" the existing ones.