"Open Recent" is frequently cleared

[tristan_ramberg1]

I currently have XD (Beta) on my Macbook Pro. Most times I open XD, my "Open Recent" menu is completely cleared out and the splash screen doesn't show my recently opened files. It's very inconvenient.

Don't know if this is a bug because XD is still in Beta, or if I need to delete and replace a preference file.

[Raymond_Lim__Adobe_]

Have you checked your System Preferences? I had seen someone experienced something similar to you and "Recent items" dropdown list in General Preferences page was set to "None" on his Macbook Pro. Please let us know if this is the case for you.

Thanks,

-Raymond

[tristan_ramberg1]

It was set to None, but after changing it it seems to have had no effect on XD. Though now I'm seeing that after changing it and going back to General preferences the drop down has automatically changed back to None.

[Raymond_Lim__Adobe_]

It's weird that it gets reset to none, but I can assure you that XD is not doing any setting change. It must be something else on your OS. BTW, which OS version do you have? And try to restart your machine and see your change in there stay put after restart.

HTH!

-Raymond

[tristan_ramberg1]

El Capitan 10.11.6

I'll try restarting.

[Raymond_Lim__Adobe_ · Accepted solution]

Try the suggestion from this url xcode - mac osx recent items even if i change it from the preferences like 5 it resets it to none ag...

i.e. `rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.recentitems.plist` and restart your mac.

[tristan_ramberg1]

Followed the instructions and restarted. My recent files now show up and the General preferences no longer defaults to None.

Thanks!

[Peter_Flynn]

If anyone's seeing this and your System Preferences > General > Recent Items preference is not set to "None," another thing you can try is running this command in Terminal:

killall sharedfilelistd

And then just relaunch whatever app is missing its recent files list.  No need to restart your whole computer.  My 10.11 Mac has this problem sometimes in XD, TextEdit, and other apps, and this fix works for me almost every time.