10.2.3 adds blank copies of projects in Open Recent submenu [FIXED]

Apparently, projects created with earlier versions of Logic will appear as blank files that can't be found when attempting to open them from the Open Recent submenu.

 

However, even when creating a new project with 10.2.3, for each project that is stored in the Open Recent submenu, a blank file will also be added to the menu:

 

 

Can anyone confirm?

 

J.

I'm not near Logic at the moment but I've seen the blank projects described in your second scenario in previous versions of Logic too.

Yes, similar results here.

Never saw anything like this before but it seems harmless, yet should be fixed.

Same here, and I personally had never noticed this issue before 10.2.3.

Here's an example of that behavior in other versions:

 

Weird empty files in 'Open Recent'

Thanks for the link Eric. Weird, I'd never experienced that before. I wonder what triggers it.

This has been happening here for quite a while now.

I'm not sure but think it could be related to spotlight changes in os x.

 

Edit:

This update has also reduced the number of recent items from 20, down to 10 here.

I've had this happening to me from 10.2.1. If I save a new project, one of those gets added to the list. Irritating that it takes up space, especially when we can't have many more recents on the list or delete recents from the list.. And I don't understand the shrinking of number of recents. What an unnecessary thing to do... From my point of view.

Never had this problem until now 10.2.3, my recents list is full of empty items, and I'm equally disappointed at the reduction of items on the recent list.

"Open recent..." still totally gone here. I tried deleting the recent file(s) in Library/ folder - made no change. This is really annoying.

Don't know if it's related to the Dock menu. Anybody noticed that the menu you have on the Dock when you right-click the Logic icon to open a project from there instead of opening Logic and then choosing a project, is all messed up at some point. If in Logic you clear the Recent submenu, then the menu in the Dock will be ok. But after a couple of projects loading, the items on the bottom of the menu move and all is messed up. It's happening for a while on my system.

 

Blink

I stopped using the recent items menu quite a while back because 20 items was the maximum items in the list. Using finder and spotlight is much better, once you get some shortcut commands under your belt you can work easily and without lots of mouse clicks.

 

Today looking at OS X system preference > General (first page near the bottom) there seems to be a new entry to set the number of items used in the recent list. It was set to 10, after resetting the preference the menu list is now working again.

Thanks! I think that did the trick. So it is a system wide setting that applies to Apple's apps too - didn't know that. It was set to "none" (not by me, maybe installing 10.2.3 did this?), now I set it to 20 and all is well.

Hi Simon, you're welcome and sorry about the delay in responding. Yes it's cool that the setting is system wide.

I made a feature request many years ago about having more entries in the menu, cool that they got around to it. However console shows errors. If the preference is set to say 50 then I get 50 error messages as the menu populates. I think you're right upgrading seems to have changed the setting, 20 became 10 here.

Time to send another report to apple.

FINALLY!

Fixed in Logic Pro X 10.4

FINALLY!

Fixed in Logic Pro X 10.4

 

I have a slightly different problem since the 10.4 update. I now have several blank and "untitled" entries in the list, making it virtually useless.

 

Every time I open a new project, say to test a plugin or just try out some new feature, this gets saved to the list, even though I haven't saved the project before quitting.

 

This is new - only projects that I had personally saved were listed in previous versions. It's now obviously showing auto-saves as well, like it or not.

 

Any ideas on how to get around this?