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Interesting...I pinned AD to the Dock, closed/opened it, opened the file, and now it sticks! It seems to be an issue with how the application is being opened. I use Overflow to launch most of my stuff. See if you can recreate this problem with something like that.

I thought I had got this working, but now today's project won't stick in the list of recents. I have other recent files listed, but never this one after I close and re-open AD. This "Open Recent" function is being non-existent and useless for me now. I have to use the Open... dialog and navigate to this file, every time. @MEB, have you been able to recreate any of this?

Thanks for the answers! The Symbols feature sounds promising. If any beta testing is under way, just let me know. Thanks again!

So far, I haven't found any questions like mine, so here goes. If I have some layers that I would like to present in different ways (e.g., tall vs. wide, clipped views, with/without other layers included, etc.), is there a way to get two or more artboards to "share" them? A web-design analogy would be multiple pages having common elements such as headers, footers, sidebars, etc. The main thing I like about the artboard approach (as implemented in AD, anyway) is that I can easily set up (and save) the dimensions of an exported image based on the artboard's size and position relative to the layers. If this can't be done with artboards, is there some other way (that can be saved to the project)? The closest I can think of to making this happen is by creating a separate .afdesign file and then using the Place tool to embed that file into each artboard. I'd rather not have to do all that, though. It would be nice if I could add "links" under each artboard to the original layers, all within the same project. (A Unix analogy might be soft-linking, or better yet, imagine labels in Gmail as opposed to the older folders paradigm. The files/emails can show up in more than one place.) Another way is to duplicate the layers into each artboard, of course, but that would be clunky. I'd rather have just one set of layers to work on and have each artboard reflect the same changes in real-time--all in the same project. To be clear, I was experimenting with creating tall and wide images from the same layers by overlapping the artboards. That would be fairly intuitive, and it almost looks like it would work. But of course, the Layers studio clearly shows that the layers only show up on one artboard at a time. If I could somehow get the same layers to be parented by more than one artboard, that should theoretically do the trick. Altogether, this is simultaneously a question asking if I should do this a different way and also a potential feature request (maybe). :-) P.S. I'm still new to AD. I'm more of a programmer (and probably sound like it, too) than a designer, so I have no idea what artboards are supposed to be or look like, according to other software such as Illustrator. I don't really care, either. The way things are going, AD is it for me, and I'll make it work one way or another. :-)

I'm running Yosemite/10.10.5. Here are the steps I've done: 1. Open AD. Right now, my list of recents is empty (except for "Clear Menu"). 2. Open one or more files. The file(s) will then show up in the list. 3. Close AD. 4. Open AD again. Sometimes the list persists, but sometimes it doesn't. It didn't this time. I ran these steps a second time, and the list stayed. However, after I closed it again and opened it back up, the list was gone. Now I'm going through the steps a third time, and the list is not clearing yet...ah, here we go. It's pretty unpredictable. I'm looking for a pattern...hmmm...it just seems random. On my fourth time through, the list is holding up through many iterations. Ah, now it's been cleared. I think I opened/closed a dozen times. Sometimes it only takes a couple of iterations. Now on my fifth run, I'm changing things up a bit. I'm launching AD from the dock. So far, the list is staying put. Hmmm. Could it make a difference how I launch it? From the Launchpad, I've seen the list get cleared. Hmmm, now it's not clearing at all. I primarily use Overflow to launch my applications, but that doesn't seem to explain anything. As of now, the list of recents is holding up. Very weird. At this point, I'm guessing there was some sort of confusion (whether within AD or within the OS, I don't know) affecting its knowledge of recently used files. Perhaps I've somehow managed to straighten something out after testing this so many times just now. Maybe launching it from the dock made AD happy in some way, for once and for all. Or maybe whatever clears the list just hasn't happened yet. I'll post again after a while. Now back to learning how to use AD to its fullest potential... :-) (I'm more of a programmer and not particularly design-minded, so this will be a bit of a challenge for me.)

I am also having this problem. Designer tracks the projects I've opened only for a while, but then after I've closed and opened the application a few times, the list of recents gets cleared. I've been able to repeat this several times. So, while the list of recents does populate, it just won't stay there very long. This makes "Open recent" pretty much useless, not to mention very annoying since I need to open files from more than one place. Also, the Recent items option in the System Preferences is set to 10. I've tried changing this setting, to no avail. My other applications seem to work fine regarding the recent document history.