Is there any easy way to delete “Recent” projects from the list shown in the Hub, and “Recent Projects” under the “File” menu? I want to clear the list.
The C7 preference folder is inside your Mac’s ‘Preferences Folder’
which is inside your ‘home’ (~) ‘Library Folder’.
However since Lion (10.7) and now also Mountain Lion (10.8)
this Library folder is hidden.
But it can be easily accessed. Here is how:
From the finder:
1-Go to the ‘Go’ menu (in the menu bar)
2-While the Go window is open, hit the ‘Option’ key.
3-You will see the home Library menu item magically appear
in between the ‘Home and ‘Computer’ menu items.
4-Once it is visible, select it and you are now in the
‘Home Library Folder’
5-Now locate the ‘Preferences’ folder.
6-Open it and locate the Cubase 7 folder
and bob’s yer uncle’.
I don’t know exactly what to do with this information, but I did figure out that the recently used list is housed, at least in part, in the file Defaults.xml. Since that’s a text document, somebody who knows XML or at least has an XML editor handy could, at least in theory, remove the recently used list (or entries in it) without killing all the other preferences. My own effort at this was not successful, but I know about as much about XML as a typical donkey knows about nuclear physics. I can vouch for the fact that if you provide yourself with a backup copy, Cubase will survive just fine when you stick the backup copy back in, overwriting your disastrous efforts at editing Defaults.xml.
If you using Mac do like described below and all your Cubase settings like Preferences, Key Commands and so on will be untouched.Go to Macintosh HD/ Users/ User Name/ Library/ Preferences/ Cubase Pro 7(8, 9) and open Defaults.xml file with TextEdit, scroll right to the bottom and start slowly scrolling to the top till you see the line below like :
Select everything to the bottom under this line, delete it and save the document.The Recent Projects list will be clear.Better yet, you make a copy of this saved document so any time you can overwrite the document containing recent projects with saved one.That’s it and good luck to everyone!