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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...
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
Worked for me.
Your solution worked for me!
Settings > Personalization > Start > Show recently opened items in Start, Jump Lists, and File Explorer.
Turn Off.
Close File Explorer.
Turn On.
Restart File Explorer.
- jimj68's solution to turn off/on Settings/Personalization/Start/Jump Lists and File Explorer worked immediately. Very easy (but not intuitive!) solution to a very annoying problem. Thank you!
- My prior solution worked for awile. But it came back for me. I found another thread that had a solution that when I applied it took out all of the word and excel items that were showing that had not been accessed.
Here is a link : Documents showing in recent when not opened - Microsoft Community
If you are wary about opening links from people you don't know like I am here is a summary:
Run (Open) File Explorer
At the top of the page you will see 3 dots
The drop down will have Options
When you open options you will see Folder Options
In Folder Options There are 3 choices. Uncheck the last one Show Files from Office .com
All of the word and excel items that were not physically accessed disappeared for me.
Since then only documents I have accessed are showing up including those excel and word documents that I access.
This seems to have fixed the problem by addressing the root cause.
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- Same thing here, it looks like it worked.
Will update here if it's not the case but thanks a lot for sharing this solution.
