Open Recent not working for Affinity apps in Sequoia

[Furry]

I don't know if the fault is one for Affinity or one for Apple. When I go to the Open Recent command in the File menu, it shows the titles of a number of recently opened files but selecting any one of them produces no result. If I go ionstead to Open…, I can negotiate through my folder network to the file I want and it opens without any fuss. This seems to apply all three Affinity apps.

Is anyone else experiencing this problem? Does anyone ghave a soluition? Or do I need to wait for the next version?

[LionelD]

@Furry On M3 MBP with Sequoia 15.1.1 and latest AD2 I do not have this problem. And I Open/Recent quite a lot.  Do you use Finder to change folder structure and/or rename file externally?  I’ve had a couple of cases where doing that confused AD2..

Regards

 

[Furry]

Thanks for your reply, LionelD.

I'm using Affinity apps (all three) on a 2013 M3 iMac running Sequoia 15.1.1. (Yes, I will have to change the small print at the foot of my messages but haven't worked out how to do that yet!)

I have noticed this most with Aff Pub, but it has happened too on both Designer and Photo. It can happen with a file I have just saved and closed and yoiu would think the System/Finder and Affinity between them would know where that file is. I have no trouble finding it but sometimes that means negotiating through several folders. Very frustrating.

[MikeTO]

Try clearing the Recent menu, opening a document, closing it, and then opening it from the Recent menu. Does that solve the problem?

[R C-R]

Go to File > Open Recent > More... or File > New & click on Recent to display a window (hopefully) showing thumbnail previews of recently opened items. If you single-click on any one of them, you should see the file path to it displayed at the bottom of the Recent window. Does this show the file is in a local folder on your drive or something else?

[Furry]

I am beginning to suspect that the problem is not an Affinity one but an Apple one. A few other weird things have been happening, such as being told I could not save a file (written by me) when I had made some small change to it. It was not an Affinity file. Yet I could save it to another folder without any worry and then replace the older file with the newer one.

I have always had a deep belief that computers are only loosely connected to reality!