I have searched on Google, and I have completed the following steps:

• Delete "all" activity history from the "Privacy" application.


• Remove the file "recently-used.xbel" from ~/.local/share


• $ nautilus -q


• Remove the file "activity.sqlite" from ~/.local/share/zeitgeist


• $ zeitgeist-daemon --replace &

I checked my "Recent" folder in between all of the above steps and none of them had any impact. I also tried:

• Remove all files with "sqlite" in the name from ~/.local/share/zeitgeist (3 files:)
  
  
  
  • activity.sqlite
  
  
  • activity.sqlite-shm
  
  
  • activity.sqlite-wal
  
  


• $ zeitgeist-daemon --replace &

None of the above had any impact on the contents of the "Recent" folder.

According to everything I've found, removing the file "recently-used.xbel" and restarting Nautilus should clear the "Recent" folder. Why isn't it working?