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    Files disappear after updating my iPad Air to 17.5.1 and can only be found in Recents

    Hey! I have about zero tech knowledge and already contacted the Apple Support, but they could not help me with this. On Sunday most of my pdf files disappeared from my iPad, most of them have been downloaded in the last couple months and all of them have been edited by me, either by writing in...
  2. edubfromktown

    Finder Recents entries disappeared and no longer update with new entries

    Hi All, My wife is going batty. She apparently relies heavily upon Recents in Finder and somewhere/somehow during the past few months, all of the entries disappeared and it no longer updates. Has anyone encountered this behavior and if so, how were you able to resolve it? I tried removing both...
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    spotlight not finding files

    i noticed the the "recents" folder only had things that were like a week old. also, certain files (mostly working with audio + DAW files) just never show up in spotlight searches. creating a smart folder also didnt help to find things that were created more recently. im still on 10.14.1...
  4. E

    Delete old photos in an avatar cache?

    When I was in iTunes, I accidentally clicked on the playlist icon (just a default musical note) for a given playlist. It pulled up a list of options for choosing a photo. The default category that popped up was 'recents' and includes a bunch of old photos that I want desperately to delete, and...
  5. R

    Phone calls appearing in "recents" on another iPhone

    My wife and I both have iPhones. They are both linked to the same Apple account. Sometimes calls I make on my iPhone appear in the "recents" list on her iPhone - but sometimes they don't. It doesn't have anything to do with geographical location, it seems, or being on the same Wifi system. I've...