Recent Places showing folders instead of files

Hello Guys, when I used to go to "recent places" from the favourites menu from file explorer it used to give me a list of the most recently opened files, now it gives me the folder of the file opened instead of the file. I recently upgraded to Win 8.1 from 8 so it might be a change made there. e.g if I open a file called text.txt in c:/Spare folder in recent places it used to add text.txt,...