It’s accessible from the Apple menu and tracks the most recently-opened applications and files, and the servers to which you have most recently connected.Ĭlearing the list of recent items is easy: Recent Items may sound similar to the Recents folder, but it is completely different. Now, the Recents tab will disappear from Finder. However, you can remove it from the Finder sidebar so that it’s much more difficult to access (Note that it will still be accessible from the Finder’s Go menu or by pressing Command-Shift-F). You can’t delete the Recents folder since it doesn’t exist. In this case, those parameters are recently-opened files.
It doesn’t exist as a real folder with contents it contains shortcuts to files according to the smart search parameters used to create the folder. That folder is what’s known as a Smart Folder.
