Delete items from Recent Folder.

As has been said already, the user has no control over what appears in the Recents.

If you want that kind of control it is easy to create your own Smart Folder, where you decide the criteria. Keep these smart folders in the Sidebar and use them as you see fit. You can have several, like pdf files created in the past week, or all documents in the last month, or... the possibilities are endless, and it is all up to you.

babowa wrote:

Just for clarification, this is the Recent folder settings I am talking about which is controlled by the Sys Prefs options:

No, that's not what the Finder preferences you referred to control.

The preferences you described control what shows up in an App's Open Recent submenu of the File menu.

The Recent Items has nothing to do with the Recents smart folder.

Recent Items refers to the Recent menus in the Apps.

The Recents Smart folder criteria does not have a limit, either in count or in time.

The only thing you can do is to adjust your preferences: System Preferences > General > Recent Items > set it to None or a lower number than what is selected currently:

Just for clarification, this is the Recent folder settings I am talking about which is controlled by the Sys Prefs options:

No.

Changing it to 10 will give you more entries.

I am referring to the list of documents contained in the Finder Folder identified as Recents. Thanx much.]

KC

So am I.

Ok.