Clearing Recent Items Menu + a Restart

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#1

I have a short script which (1) does some folder emptying, including the Trash, (2) clears the Recent Items menu and then (3) restarts. Without the last restart, no problem; the problem is that with restart, no clearing of the Recent Items menu occurs. I’ve tried various values of delay x, and zip clearing.

tell application "Finder"
	my doEmptySomeFolders()
	my doClearRecentItems()
	delay x -- have tried up to 5
	restart
end tell

on doClearRecentItems()
	tell application "System Events"
		click menu item "Clear Menu" of ¬
			menu "Recent Items" of ¬
			menu item "Recent Items" of ¬
			menu "Apple" of ¬
			menu bar item "Apple" of ¬
			menu bar 1 of ¬
			(first process whose frontmost is true)
	end tell
end doClearRecentItems
#2

Try using System Events instead:

tell application "Finder"
	my doEmptySomeFolders()
	my doClearRecentItems()
	delay x -- have tried up to 5
end tell

tell application "System Events"
	launch
	restart
end tell
#3

Bruce, unfortunately, this did not work. I’ve been thinking this may call for a solution similar to Jon Pugh’s routine for emptying the Trash such as:

Anyone got any ideas?

	tell application "Finder"
		empty the trash
		
		set nbrTrashItems to length of (items of the trash as string)
		-- display dialog nbrTrashItems
		
		set trash_loop to 0
		repeat while (nbrTrashItems > 0)
			-- this prevents an endless loop in case
			-- there are locked items in the Trash
			--
			-- suggested by Jon Pugh
			set trash_loop to trash_loop + 1
			if (trash_loop = 5 * minutes) then exit repeat
			
			set nbrTrashItems to length of (items of the trash as string)
		end repeat
	end tell
#4

John:

Be sure to read through the other thread you started, which has been interesting (and informative) of late:

http://bbs.applescript.net/viewtopic.php?id=14931

#5

Amen … and by the way, a Blessed and Merry Christmas to all.