Remove recent documents history?

It is generated by Spotlight

(see the second post on this link: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1071627?tstart=0)

You can make it so that nothing shows up (aka deactivating it) by doing the following.

• System Preferences > Spotlight > Privacy > +

• then select your Macintosh HD (or whatever your HD is called)

• then click choose.

Now that should do it.

There's always the Clear Menu items:

This would remove most of the property lists that store recent documents:

rm ~/Library/Preferences/*LSSharedFileList.plist

(Applications keep the old list of recent items until they're reopened though.)