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Some people deal with confidential files and use Dropbox for these. It would be very useful to allow people the option to clear their "Recent" files at will to allow more privacy and discretion.
I know there was a thread about this two years ago, but has this been changed since then? Is there any way to clear recently viewed files from the home page?
Walter
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHey there Scott - hope all's well at your end.
As per your inquiry now, if you are referring to the website version just find the recents section and click on the "Hide" button from the right hand side.
On the mobile application it is possible to hide the Recents list by going to
- Settings
- Advanced features
- Hide recent items on Home
I hope this helps scottgreider!
[EDIT: Since I seem to have missed your original question, I am adding this here Scott (apologies). It is currently not possible to clear items in the Recents list. I'll make sure that your comments are passed along to the development team as a feature request - thank you for the feedback!]
Walter,
This feature is oxymornig, it is useless.
I am specifically talking about the iOS or mobile app.
You have to go into account > settings and then select "Hide Recent"
But then you go to Recent tab and it says: "Recent items Hidden" and below it "Click here to unhind"
WHAT is the use of this. Why would I want to hide files and then give people the key to unhide it in the same place where the files used to be! Not only is it completely useless, it is dumb because it grabs a users attention! You might as well drop a line that says:
"Hey someone doesn't want you to see their recently viewed files! Wanna check what they're hiding ? Click here to unhide"I find this to be a design mockery !
Thank you.
Yeah, "recent items" in all it's incarnations is both useless and is a potential privacy leak. At least Windows allows you to turn off recent items and delete that history. Unfortunately all the major cloud systems seem to have this "persistent recent items" crap, or they did the last time I looked into it. Extremely frustrating because it *cannot* be that hard to wipe the history or to simply not record it in the first place.
-J
Jeremy M.10 wrote:At least Windows allows you to turn off recent items and delete that history.
Are you saying that you can turn off recent items in Dropbox for Windows? I can't find the option anywhere. It's been driving me crazy for years.
- Hi, is there any update on adding the feature to clear recent list/items
- Fiona
Thank you for your interest Karthik-v!
No updates as of yet. It is great that you joined our Community to post about this. If we get any updates, they will be posted here. Keep an eye out. :wink:
Thank you!
- I don’t understand why DropBox, Google, etc. hasn’t addressed the invasive issue that is the “Recent” feature.
For personal accounts, there are times where you don’t want to be reminded you looked at something.
Not long ago, when my Dad passed away, I spent an evening looking at photos. The next day, when I opened my app, I wanted to look at the last thing I worked on. I didn’t want or need to look at the last 10 photos of my Dad. It was painful, and frustrating. I should have been able to easily clear my history. Instead I spent half an hour opening up random files.
DropBox, Recent files is a productivity feature that deserves curation options. If my life is on DropBox, everything I look at is recent. It stops being useful and can become painful. Recent files should function only on folders I choose. This isn’t some random nice to have, it’s truly important, for practical and emotional reasons it’s important.
Thank you for reading this,
Spencer M.
