Recents folder on Mac

My Recents folder shows files opened, as far back as, a year ago. Is it possible to change the settings for the folder Recents, to show files opened a month or a week ago instead?


thank you in advance!

MacBook

Posted on Feb 28, 2019 10:41 PM

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Mar 1, 2019 9:55 AM in response to An-Da

You don't have control over what is shown in "Recents". As it turns out, "Recents" is really an application embedded in the Finder itself, not a smart folder, as one might have suspected.


The easy solution is to create your own smart folder.


In the Finder, press command-F; then fill it in like this (for example, for the last week):



Then save this by clicking the Save button. Give a descriptive name, and choose to keep this in the Sidebar, for easy access:


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Recents folder on Mac

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