{"id":8843,"date":"2024-11-27T15:19:27","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T23:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/?p=8843"},"modified":"2024-11-27T15:20:45","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T23:20:45","slug":"recents-folder-empty-after-restart-macos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/recents-folder-empty-after-restart-macos.html","title":{"rendered":"Recents Folder Empty After Restart macOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>After installing Ventura 13.7.1 OS on a new disk drive, my recents folder works for the duration of the time, but it&#8217;s blank (empty) after every restart. I do need the recents folder for reusing images and movies.\u00a0 After reading on the webs, I found a solution that actually works by re-indexing spotlight.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>1. Go to system settings- Siri &amp; Spotlight- Spotlight Privacy- <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>2. Privacy windows- + add a folder &#8211; use the whole disk including everything of macOS &#8211; click OK<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>3. Go back in again and remove the whole disk. Reboot and everything is back in the Recents folder.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"igallery\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Recents Folder Empty\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_spotlight_index.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8844 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_spotlight_index-300x163.jpg\" alt=\"Recents Folder Empty\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_spotlight_index-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_spotlight_index.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a title=\"Spotlight Privacy Window\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_spotlight_index1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8846 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_spotlight_index1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"spotlight privacy windows\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_spotlight_index1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_spotlight_index1-200x112.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_spotlight_index1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Recents Folder Full\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_recents_folder.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8845\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_recents_folder-300x144.jpg\" alt=\"Recents Folder Populated\" width=\"300\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_recents_folder-300x144.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_recents_folder.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ul class=\"lcp_catlist\" id=\"lcp_instance_0\"><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After installing Ventura 13.7.1 OS on a new disk drive, my recents folder works for the duration of the time, but it&#8217;s blank (empty) after every restart. I do need the recents folder for reusing images and movies.\u00a0 After reading on the webs, I found a solution that actually works by re-indexing spotlight. 1. Go <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/recents-folder-empty-after-restart-macos.html\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[79,1351,1719,1085,1721,1720],"class_list":["post-8843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hackintosh","tag-hackintosh","tag-macos","tag-recents-folder","tag-siri","tag-spotlight","tag-ventura"],"views":100,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8843"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8848,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8843\/revisions\/8848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}