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How to customise/disable recent items on right-click of Finder icon on Mac

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How to customise/disable recent items on right-click of Finder icon on Mac

For anyone else who finds the large number of recent items annoying when right-clicking the finder icon on Mac, simply:

System Prefs > Control Centre > Recent documents, applications and servers (right at the bottom) then switch to none :023:

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