For Mac OS X 10.5.5 Leopard users with QuickTime 7.5.5 only. Full Specifications. What's new in version 1.0. Date Added November 17, 2008. Operating Systems. Feb 06, 2011 I have a Mac OS X version 10.5.8. I have QuickTime Player 7.6.9 installed. Whenever I try to open a wmv file, I get the message 'The movie could not be opened. The file is not a movie file.' This happens for all wmv files.
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So, you use this to keep others from seeing what porn movies played last in quicktime player?
Stop Quicktime from displaying recently played items list
Well, obviously it's for the porn!
Now, how does one do it for VideoLan Client, my player of choice?
Now, how does one do it for VideoLan Client, my player of choice?
Stop Quicktime from displaying recently played items list
makes quicktime player unexpectedly quit on launch for me. what were the permissions beforehand? i set it back to 777 but i'd like to restore it correctly.
Stop Quicktime from displaying recently played items list
Stop Quicktime from displaying recently played items list
Okay, so how can I apply the same hack to Preview? Obvious reasons to do so, of course.
Stop Quicktime from displaying recently played items list
Hello,
For Apple's Preview app, launch Preview, go to preferences, make sure the preferences are the way you *want* them to be. Then simply lock ~/Library/com.apple.Preview.plist. Now when you launch Preview and open your images, they will appear in the recent menu list, but when you relaunch the app they will be gone.
If you want to change any of the preferences, you will need to unlock the file.
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Rick Bargerhuff alias cougar
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Apple Technician / Specialist / Web Designer
Personal Email: [email protected]
For Apple's Preview app, launch Preview, go to preferences, make sure the preferences are the way you *want* them to be. Then simply lock ~/Library/com.apple.Preview.plist. Now when you launch Preview and open your images, they will appear in the recent menu list, but when you relaunch the app they will be gone.
If you want to change any of the preferences, you will need to unlock the file.
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Rick Bargerhuff alias cougar
Programmer / Developer
Apple Technician / Specialist / Web Designer
Personal Email: [email protected]
Stop Quicktime from displaying recently played items list
now now! it could also be for illegal mp3's... (although u should use iTunes for those)...
Regardless of your reasons for not wanting QT (or any other app) to show your recently opened items, lest you forget that the Open dialog of any app will default back to the directory that contains your most recently opened item. So, don't forget to open another file from another directory before quitting the app.
In case you have DefaultFolder installed, it will even highlight the most recently opened file in the Open dialog.
In case you have DefaultFolder installed, it will even highlight the most recently opened file in the Open dialog.
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Stop Quicktime from displaying recently played items list
Apparently Quicktime 6.4 breaks this hint.
Quicktime kept crashing whenever I had it play a movie. It would launch fine but any time I tried to get it to play a movie if would crash. I tried to repair permissions but that didn't help. I finally fixed it by going to the file ~/Library/Preferences/QuickTimeFavorites and returning it to its pre-hint condition.
I think this hint also contributed to my first OmniWeb crash in a while. It happened right after I tried to use OmniWeb to view one of the new iPod commercials, OmniWeb locked up and slowed the Mac OS X user interface to a crawl, but I was finally able to force quit out of it.
Quicktime kept crashing whenever I had it play a movie. It would launch fine but any time I tried to get it to play a movie if would crash. I tried to repair permissions but that didn't help. I finally fixed it by going to the file ~/Library/Preferences/QuickTimeFavorites and returning it to its pre-hint condition.
I think this hint also contributed to my first OmniWeb crash in a while. It happened right after I tried to use OmniWeb to view one of the new iPod commercials, OmniWeb locked up and slowed the Mac OS X user interface to a crawl, but I was finally able to force quit out of it.
Stop Quicktime from displaying recently played items list
My QT 6.4 crashed on launch after this hint even after a Pantehr 10.3.1 upgrade.
I found if I simply deletd the QuicktimeFavorites file form the Library folder it is now functional again.
I found if I simply deletd the QuicktimeFavorites file form the Library folder it is now functional again.
Stop Quicktime from displaying recently played items list
Like the previous poster meant by 'returning the file to its pre-hint condition,' simply unlocking the 'QuickTimeFavorites' file solves the problem.
It is quite unfortunate that there _still_ seems to be no option to turn off the recent items list. Shouldn't it be mandatory for any app that offers it to also offer a way to turn it off?
It is quite unfortunate that there _still_ seems to be no option to turn off the recent items list. Shouldn't it be mandatory for any app that offers it to also offer a way to turn it off?
Stop Quicktime from displaying recently played items list
Being frustrated with the old tip not working I played around and bingo...
1. Create a file called 'QuickTimeFavorites', I used TextEdit.
2. Remove the invisible .xxx , for TextEdit it would be the .rtf
3. Place in User/Library/Preferences
No more Recently Played Items.
1. Create a file called 'QuickTimeFavorites', I used TextEdit.
2. Remove the invisible .xxx , for TextEdit it would be the .rtf
3. Place in User/Library/Preferences
No more Recently Played Items.
08 December 2010, 11:29
On Tuesday night, Apple released an update for its QuickTime multimedia application. Version 7.6.9 is available for users running Windows XP SP2 or later and Mac OS X 10.5.8 (Leopard) – users running the latest version (10.6) of Mac OS X (Snow Leopard) are reportedly not affected. According to Apple, the latest update fixes a total of 15 security vulnerabilities.
The company says that 14 of the bugs can be used by attackers to crash QuickTime and possibly lead to the execution of malicious code on a victim's system. Two of the bugs are present in the Windows version of QuickTime only, one of which allows privilege escalation.
The vulnerabilities fixed in QuickTime 7.6.9 include bugs affecting the way JP2 and Flashpix images, AVI files and other film formats, are handled. In view of the number of arbitrary code execution issues, an immediate update is advisable. According to Apple, these problems have already been fixed (by the last update) under Mac OS X 10.6.5.
Quicktime Player 10.5 Mac
QuickTime 7.6.9 for Windows is available to download from Apple's web site. Mac OS X Leopard users can upgrade to the latest release via the built-in Software Update function. All users are advised to upgrade to the latest release as soon as possible.
See also:
- About the security content of QuickTime 7.6.9, security advisory from Apple.
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