Where does Atom store its recently opened files list?

Question

I'm using Atom 1.0.15. On startup, Atom tries to open a file on a MTP device every time, which is very annoying. Even after closing the tab referring to the file on the MTP device, Atom will try to reopen it on next startup.

A fix would probably be to clear the recently opened files list, but I can't find it. Where is it located?

Secretory

Answer 1

A quick and inelegant way is to just clean your ~/.atom/storage directory (%HOMEPATH%\.atom\storage).

This should 'reset' Atom to a project-less state.

Knee

Thank you! Actually, I found out that the little bugger resided in ~/.atom/storage/applications.json. Removing that file solved my problem. – Secretory

This does not seem to be true anymore, because I deleted my whole .atom directory and it still knows all open files. – Smriti

@Smriti Did you ever figure out how to do this? I "rm -rf ~/.atom", but when I open up a directory, and it still tries to open all it's open files. – Vickery

Answer 2

According to this site: 1, it saved it in indexedDB. So if you want to clear it:

1. Press ctrl-shift-i
2. Find the Application tab where you may see the IndexedDB databases.
3. You may delete the Atom* ones.

Dhobi