On OSX, you want to get the plist files (which is the analog to the Windows registry discussed in stderr's answer). Unfortunately, this plist file doesn't seem to contain a much longer version of the recent files list as does its Windows analog. Rather, it keeps the same short (e.g., 10 item) list that appears under the normal "Recent files" list in Foxit Reader, plus a seemingly random selection of PDF files (in my case, 10) in a somewhat different format within the plist file. These PDF files were ones I had opened, but were definitely not opened recently.
So this is probably not useful, but I include it for completeness. The recent file list appears to be stored at
/Users/<username>/Library/Preferences/com.foxit-software.Foxit Reader.plist
Unlike many plist files, this one is stored as a binary file rather than plain text. However, it can be converted to XML using the plutil:
plutil -convert xml1 -o - <file name>
or pulling it all together, you need to run this in the command line
plutil -convert xml1 -o - /Users/<username>/Library/Preferences/com.foxit-software.Foxit\ Reader.plist
where of course you must replace <username>
with the relevant username. Note also the backslash between Foxit
and Reader
, which is necessary to correctly escape the space in the filename.