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P: Ability to remove specific files from the "recent" pane of the Home Screen [2018]

LÉGENDE ,
Jul 11, 2018 Jul 11, 2018

That's that, a simple remove, even with a right click would do.

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Nouveau ici ,
Oct 27, 2023 Oct 27, 2023

This worked for me (macOS):

 

Move the specific file into a different folder or place in your Finder.

Go back into the home page of photoshop and click on the file that you want to remove in Recents.

A message will pop up saying "File can't be opened because it was moved or deleted." 

Click "OK" and that specific file should be removed from your recents.

 

*the file will not be deleted from your finder unless you literally dragged that file to the trash. I  you want to access that specific file later enter the file through Finder, not photoshop*

 

Hope this helps a bit.

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Nouveau ici ,
Dec 25, 2023 Dec 25, 2023

please add hide or remove recent event (not all of them) from the photoshop default page. for safe

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Community Expert ,
Dec 25, 2023 Dec 25, 2023

in the future, to find the best place to post your message, use the list here, https://community.adobe.com/

p.s. i don't think the adobe website, and forums in particular, are easy to navigate, so don't spend a lot of time searching that forum list. do your best and we'll move the post (like this one has already been moved) if it helps you get responses.



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Community Expert ,
Dec 25, 2023 Dec 25, 2023

Ideas part of the forum is probably better place to post suggestions or ideas like this one. 

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Nouveau ici ,
Jan 06, 2024 Jan 06, 2024

I have found a temporary fix if people are still interested, and seeing as this post has 20k views I'm guessing people are.

This is confirmed to work in Windows 10, if you are using a different Operating System then hopefully it will also work for you.

1. Within Windows rename the files you want removed from your Recent list. 
2. Boot up or restart Photoshop, you'll see that the file is now gone from Recent Files.
3. Close Photoshop.

4. Change the file name back to what it originally was. 


Done, next time you open Photoshop the files will be gone from your Recent Files.

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Community Expert ,
Jan 06, 2024 Jan 06, 2024
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I have found a temporary fix…rename the files you want removed from your Recent list.

By @Stephen278685033tpi 

 

Yes, that workaround does work on both Windows and macOS.

 

But the more files you want to remove, the faster it is to use another method: Temporarily move the files to another location, such as a temporary subfolder or the desktop. Instead of having to rename 5 or 6 files, you can just drag them all to the other location in one second. When they disappear from the Recent list, you drag the files back to their original location.

 

Also, the files are not gone from the list the next time you start Photoshop. At least on my Mac, they are still in the Recent list until you try to open one, and then Photoshop displays the warning pictured below. So you still have to click each one of them before each one actually goes away. The warning shows that moving also sets up a file to be removed from the Recent list (but the warning strangely doesn’t mention renaming).

 

Photoshop-Home-screen-Recent-missing-file-alert-on-Home-screen.jpg

 

The reason renaming or moving the files sets them up to be removed from the Recent list is actually because of a different inconvenience (some would say a bug) when you do want a file to stay in the Recent list:

 

Photoshop links to Recent files by their folder path, of course. If anything about that path changes, the link breaks. Photoshop will not ask you to re-link to that file, it will simply give up and display that alert. (But if it is a linked Smart Object, Photoshop does let you know it can’t be found under the last filename or path location. So Photoshop already has the code to let you re-link to missing files, it just doesn’t use that code for Recent files.)

 

If Adobe ever fixes the bug in the previous paragraph so that renaming or moving breaks the Recent link, the “rename or move” workaround will stop working. For example, some macOS applications can continue to track and open Recent files even if they are moved or renamed. (I think they use an OS file system API to do that.) If Adobe ever upgraded Photoshop to support the self-healing Recent file list, there are users who would welcome that.

 

So, Adobe has three separate things to fix about the Recent list:

  • A fix to clarify the warning so that it also says renaming a file can also block re-opening. 
  • A feature request to let the user remove one or more arbitary files from the Recent menu, for the users who want that level of control without clearing the whole list. 
  • A fix to support a self-healing Recent file list, for the users who are frustrated when they need to rename or move a file and do not want that to result in losing the file from the Recent list. 
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Débutant dans la communauté ,
May 22, 2024 May 22, 2024

This is a great workaround.

 

I have also found: Click on the file in the recent list you would like to remove.

Once the file is open >Save as

In Windows, the file's location folder is opened and simply add a "1" or anything you prefer in the file name.

Press Escape.

Click once again on the file in the recent list you would like to have removed and you then get the error message

Screenshot 2024-05-22 224151.png

 

Click OK, then the file is gone from the list. No need to close and restart Photoshop.

 

Why oh why can't Adobe listen to their customers ? 

You can remove individual files from the recent list in Acrobat.

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Débutant dans la communauté ,
May 22, 2024 May 22, 2024

After pressing Escape > Close the file (missed this step, sorry)

Then,

Click once again on the file in the recent list you would like to have removed and you then get the error message

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Click OK, then the file is gone from the list. No need to close and restart Photoshop.

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Nouveau ici ,
May 23, 2024 May 23, 2024

It's a hack, but if the file(s) get removed or deleted on teh drive, the reference in "recents" becomes null. So when you attempt to open then via recents after purposely moving or deleting them, Adobe (at least PhotoShop) removes the entry for the "recent" item.

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Débutant dans la communauté ,
Jul 27, 2024 Jul 27, 2024

It's incredibly frustrating knowing that any competent programmer could implement such a simple, necessary feature in an hour. Yet, users are left to rely on hacky workarounds because Adobe seems oblivious to our needs.

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Nouveau ici ,
Sep 11, 2024 Sep 11, 2024

The recent files list in Photoshop is extremely helpful! However, there are some items that I do not want to show in that list in case someone is looking over my shoulder (for varying reasons: confidentiality, too graphic, etc). Currently, the only option to remove items is to clear the whole list. That's not ideal since that list is very useful and clearing that list renders that list useless. I usually just want to remove one item from the list, so being able to remove individual items would be an extremely useful feature.

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Nouveau ici ,
Jul 05, 2025 Jul 05, 2025

You would think Right click - Remove from List but no

Delete or move the file

Then select it from Adobe Home

Error then it dissappears

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Jul 05, 2025 Jul 05, 2025
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Nouveau ici ,
Sep 07, 2025 Sep 07, 2025

agree, right-click "remove" would be great. 

It will "remove" a recent from the list with a little hacky work-around that we shouldn't have to deal with, but if the recent file can't be found, it will magically remove itself from the list when you click on it. I'll mouse over the recent file then go to where it is stored in my computer and either move it somewhere else or modify its name slightly. (Or simply delete it when I probably dont need it anymore at all) Then when I click on the recent file, it tells me it can't find it and removes itself from the list. I'll then go return the file to the name I wanted it to have, or move it back to the folder i wnated it in originally.

 

in short.

 

1) In Photoshop: Mouse over unwanted "recent" and note its file path.

2) In File Exploreer: Go to the file path location and change what the recent path was looking for. (ie: rename/remove/or delete the image file)

3) In Photoshop: Go click on the "recent" and it tells you it can't find it and it's now gone from recent files

4) (optional) In File Explorer: Go return the image file to what/where you wanted it originally

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Engagé ,
Sep 09, 2025 Sep 09, 2025

In addition to what I already commented 2 years ago (ability to individually remove files from "recent"), it would also be nice a "pin" option so that files that you want to always be there, stay at the top. I know we now have "Projects", but still, for general use documents, this would make more sense to me at least.

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Débutant dans la communauté ,
Sep 09, 2025 Sep 09, 2025
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It's disappointing this hasn't been implemented yet. It would take a junior developer just a couple of days to implement if they were given the preferences file syntax. In the meantime, the app I talked about here over 2 years ago still works beautifully for me with no changes since I created it. It's Windows only, but it's here if anyone would like to use it on a PC.

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