Thank you to the members that replied. I saved myself some grief. Kind Regards
Tony Francis BODDINGTON W. A. > On 12 Oct 2023, at 20:58, Daniel Kerr via WAMUG <wa...@lists.wamug.org.au> > wrote: > > Hi Tony > > Yes, as Tim mentioned, you don’t want to delete those, or you will lose it. > Recents is just a “ghost image” of where all your files are stored currently > in other places on the computers. So if you delete them, you’re technically > deleting the originals. > Easiest way to not see them, is to change what you see when you click on > Finder. > > To do that, go to Finder. > Then go to the Finder menu and click on Preferences. (Or Settings in Ventura > and above). > Then click on General. > Under “New Finder windows show” - you can then change “Recent” to say > “Documents” or your user directory (eg “Tony" or whatever your user account > is called). > Then close that window. > > Now, when you click on Finder (“the little smiley person on the left of the > Dock”), you’ll get taken to the folder you selected above. > I tend to have mine just open to my User directory, as then I can go to all > my main folders from there - Desktop, Documents, etc. > > Hope that helps. > > Kind regards > Daniel > > --- > Daniel Kerr > MacWizardry > > p : 0414 795 960 > e : <daniel AT macwizardry.com.au> > w : <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> > > > **For everything Apple** > > NOTE: Any information provided in this email may be my personal opinion and > as such should be taken accordingly, and may not be the views of MacWizardry. > Any information provided does not offer or warrant any form of warranty or > accept liability. It would be appreciated that if any information in this > email is to be disseminated, distributed or copied, that permission by the > author be requested. > >> On 12 Oct 2023, at 5:06 pm, Anthony (Tony) Francis via WAMUG >> <wa...@lists.wamug.org.au> wrote: >> >> Hi Guy’s >> Just a question, when opening the FINDER it opens with RECENT, can I just >> delete all of the recent activity? Or will I lose the original files? >> >> I know that I should know the answer but I’m just making sure. >> >> Thanks all >> >> Kind Regards >> >> Tony Francis >> >> BODDINGTON >> >> W.A. >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <https://www.mail-archive.com/wamug@wamug.org.au/> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <https://www.mail-archive.com/wamug@wamug.org.au/> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <https://www.mail-archive.com/wamug@wamug.org.au/> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
