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mmharris64
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PowerBI Desktop Recent Items File List

How do i clear the recent itesm list of files? I have several that no longer exist but they still show on my list and i keep accidently clicking on them. 

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Eric_Zhang
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@mmharris64 wrote:

How do i clear the recent itesm list of files? I have several that no longer exist but they still show on my list and i keep accidently clicking on them. 


@mmharris64

AFAIK, it is not supported to remove the recent item list. You can check this idea remove option for recently used files and vote it up.

To mitigate the situation, you can pin the needed items.

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