Automate Recent Items folder to reduce AppleWorks' sluggishness

[davec]

As you may know, getting AppleWorks to run well and fast is mostly a 
factor of how recently the Recent Items folder has been emptied (or 
at least the items are reduced in number).

Here's an AppleScript script to automate this. It uses OS X's Folder 
Actions feature. When you install this script (Library/Scripts/Folder 
Action Scripts) and attach it to the Recent Items folder, every time 
an item is added to this folder this script will launch and delete 
one of the items (the oldest one) from the folder.

1. Ctrl-click or right-click on the Recent Items folder 
(~/Documents/AppleWorks User Data/Starting Points/Recent Items
2. Choose Attach a Folder Action
3. Navigate to and choose the Keep10 script

As currently configured, the script will make sure that the last 10 
items are remembered. You can edit the script to remember any number 
of recent items.

<http://scriptbuilders.net/files/keep101.0.html>

Enjoy,
Dave