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App Dock icons don’t work properly

Q I normally open recent documents through an app’s Dock icon, and clear that list in the app itself. Why doesn’t that work the same with apps like NeoOffice, LibreOffice and OpenOffice?

by DAVID LISTER

A Normally, when an app opens a document, details of that are recorded by Launch Services, part of macOS which operates many of the features associated with the Finder and common human interface. Launch Services adds that to the list of documents opened by that

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