How to Clear or Remove the Recent file list in mobile apps

Upload a bunch of private photos into a secure folder... Two minutes later, my kid clicks on my drop box folder to get his homework.. guess what recent pops up... Goodbye drop box.

Agree with others, clear recent is needed. Imagine not being able to clear your browser history? As an end user it is annoying to see customers being ignored. As a developer, I can't understand what could be so difficult about it.

Not renewing and not looking back either, my prime offers unlimited photo storage anyway.

Guys I found a temporary fix.

I just placed a folder named "z" on my dropbox folder, inside it theres a folder named z1 with about  15 empty text files... then I made about 50 copy folders named z1, z1 (copy), z1 (copy2), etc. (To do this, just press CTRL + C, then CTRL + V lots of times.)

So there are about 500 total empty text files inside the multiple folders. 

When you do this recent files bug, and none will be shown. 

Lol!!! FYI if you delete it from recents, you also delete your file from dropbox.

Careful.

Very annoyed with this feature. It's the first tab one sees when opened. If my device is compromised they'll know immediately what I was working. Clearing and deactivating would be ideal. Thank you. 

 1. I don't like the fact that the defult page is "recent files", which wouldn't be so bad if it maybe showed folders instead of thumbnails of actual files. 

2. The "recent files" list seems really long, it shows files I looked at, new folders, any activity basically is on the list, files I feel like I dealt with weeks ago still show, when you scroll down it's seems limitless. 

3. Is this a feature that is not being fixed because most user's are not paid customers? 

4. I notice on the forum anybody remotely connected to DB only replies to tell people to direct them related post. Or they simply say "no" the issue can't be fixed, but never to give answers to help. 

5. It's a big glitch, let's be honest people use these things to hide pictures too, so to have those same pictures be the exact thing to pop up first is ridiculous. 

6. Everyone notices that Dropbox is not really addressing these concerns, and are seemingly not worried about fixing the concerns. 

I ask does the lack of concern from Dropbox  come from users not being subscribers? Or like another poster asked, is it because the app is automatically downloaded on some devices, giving you more users.?

8. This issue is for both the cell phone app and the computer. 

 1. I don't like the fact that the defult page is "recent files", which wouldn't be so bad if it maybe showed folders instead of thumbnails of actual files. 

2. The "recent files" list seems really long, it shows files I looked at, new folders, any activity basically is on the list, files I feel like I dealt with weeks ago still show, when you scroll down it's seems limitless. 

3. Is this a feature that is not being fixed because most user's are not paid customers? 

4. I notice on the forum anybody remotely connected to DB only replies to tell people to direct them related post. Or they simply say "no" the issue can't be fixed, but never to give answers to help. 

5. It's a big glitch, let's be honest people use these things to hide pictures too, so to have those same pictures be the exact thing to pop up first is ridiculous. 

6. Everyone notices that Dropbox is not really addressing these concerns, and are seemingly not worried about fixing the concerns. 

7.I ask does the lack of concern from Dropbox  come from users not being subscribers? Or like another poster asked, is it because the app is automatically downloaded on some devices, giving you more users.?

8. This issue is for both the cell phone app and the computer. 

This is an important feature to add; if you can clear your browser history, you should be able to clear your Recents history on Dropbox.

Why is it a difficult feature to add? Say you're reading user actions to generate the history and there's no way to delete those actions from the database without causing other problems - is that the problem? I'm a developer, I understand this.

So why not just update a timestamp in the database to the current time and don't show history earlier than the current timestamp. There you go. Problem solved. This has been going on for way too long and it's bothered me for months and months - please implement an update for the sake of your paying customers.

It is pity that big players in the market do not listen to the public,  maybe it is Microsoft, Evernote or Dropbox.  People are suffering for almost 1 years and it takes hell the Dropbox to solve  problem.Actually on the first instance it should not have been there as a problem there had to be an option to not to have recent file permanently.  Secondly when the people are crying why and how it is taking years Dropbox  to remove this problem?. Especially in this hi Technology age.  It shows that they have taken their customers at ransom. Very very bad. We are the poor lot. Even if they solve it now it has made poor history as a customer care.