Zennher Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 How do you clean recently opened files in excel and word ? CCleaner doesnt do it on my computer any idea why ? Thanks for your help, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators mta Posted July 27, 2015 Moderators Share Posted July 27, 2015 Office version? Backup now & backup often.It's your digital life - protect it with a backup.Three things are certain; Birth, Death and loss of data. You control the last. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zennher Posted July 27, 2015 Author Share Posted July 27, 2015 The last one Office 365 is it stored online somewhere ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators mta Posted July 27, 2015 Moderators Share Posted July 27, 2015 Office 2013 keeps them here; \AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Office\Recent\ Office 365 is 2013, just on a monthly subscription (with some online steaming of features thrown in). I have that folder as an EXCLUDE in CC so they don't get cleaned. You will need an INCLUDE. Ticking or unticking the Office 2013 box on Application tab in CC should give the same outcome. (I just wanted to be sure with my EXCLUDE) Backup now & backup often.It's your digital life - protect it with a backup.Three things are certain; Birth, Death and loss of data. You control the last. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zennher Posted July 27, 2015 Author Share Posted July 27, 2015 The Office 2013 and 2010 are both ticked, i added the folder you mentioned to the INCLUDE Folder, i checked after cleaning and the files in there were deleted but i somehow still get links showing my recent files (mostly links to my One Drive). Maybe One Drive Links are stored somewhere else ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators mta Posted July 27, 2015 Moderators Share Posted July 27, 2015 I don't use OneDrive so can't say - but I would not have thought so. Word wouldn't care where the file comes from, it'll just keep that location in its Recent list. Although not a solution, try this. When you first start Word, click Open Other Documents down the left side, right click one of the files in the Recent Documents list and select Clear unpinned documents. When you added that INCLUDE did you put %UserProfile% in front of it? Backup now & backup often.It's your digital life - protect it with a backup.Three things are certain; Birth, Death and loss of data. You control the last. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zennher Posted July 27, 2015 Author Share Posted July 27, 2015 No i didn't put the %UserProfile% i looked for the path directly through my user name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators mta Posted July 28, 2015 Moderators Share Posted July 28, 2015 Same diff, that would still work. Well, that's the easy stuff covered, now for the left-of-centre ideas. Maybe a registry corruption?, have you ever run the CC reg cleaner? Maybe an Office corruption?, try running a Repair of Office? Try these as recent file locations; (found them via a quick Google search) AppData\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\CustomDestinations AppData\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations Backup now & backup often.It's your digital life - protect it with a backup.Three things are certain; Birth, Death and loss of data. You control the last. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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