![]() ![]() Even files that you’ve exported appear in Recents. They’re located in a bunch of places on your Mac. Looking at the contents of my Recents folder below in list view, I can click on various files and press Command (⌘) – I (Get Info), and find the path to the files. Recents finds all of your files located anywhere, and lists them in reverse chronological order They’re found everywhere - in various iCloud folders, in my Downloads folder, in Documents, even in my Dropbox folder. That’s why I provided the warning earlier to not delete items from the Recents folder unless you really mean to get rid of them. ![]() unless you realize the error of your ways and want them back, in which case you can either use the helpful Undo item in the Finder menu (Command (⌘) – Z) or open the Trash, select the file(s), and then use File > Put Back (Command (⌘) – Delete) to place them back in their original location.Īlso in list view you’ll notice that the files are listed in reverse chronological order. What you’re seeing is a listing of the actual files, so deleting any of the files in Recents gets rid of them for good. The most recent file is a screenshot I took for this article today at 10:33 AM, followed by a document from yesterday at 11:46 AM, and so on. So as I mentioned earlier, the Recents folder is actually the results of a macOS search for documents of all file types in all locations, sorted in descending time order. When I’m working on my Mac, I’m a bit of a neat freak at the end of the workday. I close all of my documents and apps, just out of habit, and the next day when it’s time to get back to work, I go into the Recents folder and those documents are listed at the top. I can double-click any one of them (or select multiple files and open them with Command (⌘) – O), and I’m back to work in seconds. Recents is also useful when I’m looking for a file that I worked on in the past. Let’s say that I’ve written something for a client and two weeks later they ask me to make a change in the document. Opening Recents and viewing the contents in list view, I can easily see what I wrote two weeks ago just by looking at the date. ![]()
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