where is the recently accessed file list stored

[Colin Law]

2010/7/21 yu huang <hybryant at hotmail.com>:
> yes, as Colin said, I am refering to Places->Recent Documents
>
> in the main menu of ubuntu

So did Florian's post answer your question?

Colin

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> Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:29:06 +0100
> From: Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com>
> Subject: Re: where is the recently accessed file list stored
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> On 20 July 2010 07:47, John D Lamb <J.D.Lamb at btinternet.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 11:32 +0800, yu huang wrote:
>>> I want to have a menu item in places where records the recent accessed
>>> directory.
>>> I am wondering where is the recent accessed document list stored in
>>> ubuntu?
>>> How does ubuntu track the recently accessed file?
>>
>> There is no recently accessed file list. As far as I know no operating
>> system _automatically_ maintains such a list ? there are just too many
>> files. Individual programmes like OpenOffice may maintain a list of
>> files they have used.
>
> I suspect the OP is referring to Places, Recent Documents.
>
> Colin
>
>>
>> You can create a recently accessed list using
>>
>> Places
>> ?Search for files ?
>>
>> Choose a folder such as your home folder. Don?t search the entire file
>> system ? that will take far too long ? and unlike other OSs, Ubuntu
>> keeps your files separate from system files. Under
>>
>> Select more options
>> add an option for
>>
>> Date modified less than
>>
>> and choose (say) 14 days.
>>
>> This should find your recently-used files.
>>
>>
>> There are other solutions to this. You may have to look beyond the
>> Ubuntu catalogue to find them.
>>
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