I have a persistent problem with the “Recent Applications” working set in Designer: as long as it contains five databases, it won’t update to display anything opened more recently.
If I uncheck “Show Recent Applications” (so Designer apparently displays every database I’ve ever opened), then open a design element from a database which is currently not in the “Recent Applications” working set, then re-check “Show Recent Applications”, the database I just opened does not appear in the working set.
(I get the same result if I open something using File->Application->Open… the just-opened database does not appear in the “Recent Applications” working set.)
So far, the only way I’ve found to make the “Recent Applications” working set update is to remove something from it. After about 5 seconds’ delay, the item I just removed from the working set will be replaced by something I have opened recently, but not necessarily the most recently opened database.
Also one side-issue: is there a configuration option anywhere to increase the number of items allowed in the “Recent Applications” working set?