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I want to clear all the Recent file list, there has no clear function please advise how to clear the list.
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Swe Tin
Signing out and signing back in does not clear recents list.
Survey:
Do you prefer not to have this feature at all ? (1) or have this feature without option to clear recents? (2)
my response: (1)
Maybe The DropBox Team will respond to this.
@Earle R.
signing out and signing in only clears files that have been deleted from dropbox from the recent list in the iOS app. At least it worked for me.
Signing out and signing in not clear the recent file list. It doesn't work for me.
This post is six months old, now. Is this getting fixed, or what?
Has this been fixed in any way. I have to renew my subscription to Dropbox. OR NOT.
I am almost ready to quit dropbox if this issue on clearing the "recents" does not get fixed!!!
Why is this taking so long? I want to be able to clear items from Recents but not have them removed from Dropbox all together. I too will have to consider not renewing.
Yea dont think there going to fix it im starting to move to google drive good bye dropbox
with any standard text editor.
Open the plist file in the editor of your choice, and you can see the layout showing "Applications", "Documents," "Hosts," and "Servers" categories, all defined by their own "" tags. In each of these there is a "CustomListItems" category (defined as an array) that contains each of the recent items for that category. Find the name of the recent item and remove the whole entry for the item (all the contents between the "" and "" tags for the item, including the tags themselves).
Save the plist and then log out of the computer. Once you log back in, the change will take effect (just restarting the Finder will have no effect).
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