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Hello,
for a couple of days or maybe even weeks I noticed that in my recent files list in Windows Explorer several files appear which I did not actively open. At this moments there are 13 of these files in my list. All of these files seem to be on OneDrive.
This concerns me in two different ways:
Security: have the files been "touched" by some villaineous software, or have they just been checked routinely by Windows and its components?
Usability: In the recent files list are more then 50 percent of files which I did not work on and which will block my view on the files I did open.
I am hoping for advise.
Have a great time
Olaf.
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Has anyone tried unchecking "Include accoutn-based insights, recent, favorite...." under folder options of Home?
Open File explorer > click home > click the "..." > go to options > uncheck Include account-based insights...".
So this gets even more complex, now the files are not with the date the issue started but back to normal dates and time.
The Folders however have the date of when the issue started, this is clearly a Onedrive issue. Pfffff, glad
I never really liked OneDrive; I found it too intrusive. However, if not for this issue, and Microsoft's failure to fix, I'd never have gotten around to extricating myself from it. Now, I'll merely backup my files monthly on an external drive -- like the old days. I like to have control over my own stuff. Old fashioned backup does limit convenience, but I'm adjusting.
You wonder if that's not the better way to backup stuff.
Ok for me this is now clearly a Onedrive Issue, opened Winamp and 100 songs, with same data same time, accessed recently.
In the Music Folder, I mean.
This does for me enforce that this is Onedrive, nobody exterior can access 100 files the same second.
Or can they?
Looks like Onedrive has a big biffy bug.