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Lorenzo C.4
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11 years ago
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Is there a way to disable the Recent Files feature?

I don't like the recent files to be shown.  Can I turn off the feature or at least clear the files so they don't show up?
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  • Ed's avatar
    Ed
    10 years ago

    Hi all,

    Thanks for keeping sending your thoughts and thanks for summarizing it Alexis. 

    You have the ability to switch off recents from your https://www.dropbox.com/account page. That currently works for web only and not mobile.

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Rich
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10 years ago

It started as an Apple thread but quickly moved to cover all mobile apps. It's the largest and most appropriate thread on Recents in the mobile apps so it's the one we've been redirecting everyone to use. Doesn't make sense to have a separate post for each mobile app.

On the website, which this thread covers, you can already disable the default display of the Recents list so it's no longer as big of an issue as it remains on the mobile clients.

For the record, I'm in COMPLETE agreement regarding the feature on both the web and mobile apps and have been pretty vocal about it in the past. I'm just trying to keep everything organized here.

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