How to clear items from Recents without the originals being deleted from folders?

Is there any way to delete items in Recents without it deleting the originals in their folders?

iMac 27″, macOS 13.0

Posted on Nov 6, 2022 02:07 PM

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Nov 9, 2022 06:04 PM in response to Dorain1

Just seems a waste of space. I have to take daily pics of my PG&E meter since they rarely send a person to do so. So I have a lot of pics of this in my PG&E folder and it just seems a waste of memory to have them also in Recents folder and think that I should be able to clear them from recents, why use up memory when I have the originals in my PG&E folder? Also wasn't nice to discover that deleting them from recents deleted the originals in my PG&E folder since PG&E just "estimates" my usage if they don't send a person out to do it resulting in their estimate going above my baseline rates resulting in higher costs unless I catch it. Total nonsense on PG&E's part just due to my having solar, I've had to correct them many times and taking meter pics is all I have. I realize Apple thinks they're doing us a favor but should give us the option of deleting items we don't need without it deleting the originals. A warning would also be nice, I thought I was just clearing out space before realizing I was deleting the originals too.

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