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Recent files show files have been accessed today within minutes of this message. I have not accessed these files in most cases in months and in some cases years. I have tried Microsoft support but th...
Same issue here, has anyone discovered what is causing this?
PeterPete12
I have this same issue and was just looking at the on-demand settings for the files as per this troubleshooting post:
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/onedrive/change-in-files-on-demand-behaviour-in-recent-update-to-onedrive/m-p/3976707
I am giving that a try and will be keeping an eye on this behavior as well.- This has been very frustrating as you well know. If your problem was like mine you would see multiple word and excel documents showing up as accessed all at the same time and date in recents when those documents had not been touched for some time. As I have described previously I tried all the suggestions and none worked. Just yesterday I tried something new and it seems to help the problem at leaast for the last 2 days. I went to Settings, Personalization, Start. In Start you will see Show recently opened items in Start, Jump Lists and File Explorer. Mine was on. I turned it off and looked at File Exploreer and every Recent and quick access was gone. I went back to Show recently opened items in Start, Jump Lists and File Explorer and turned it on. My file explorer was empty but as I accessed documents all day yesterday and today it appears they are back to normal. Don't know if this is the solution or just dumb luck but so far so good.
this solution worked for me, thank you. After implementing this suggested solution my starred 'favourite' files didn't then show up in 'recent'. I guess there is a logic to that because they already show in faves
