Blender not "keeping" recent files

Ok folks need some help please. I obviously am missing something…Blender no longer stores (lists) my recent files. I have checked the user prefs and can’t see anything wrong there. I didn’t think I messed with these settings but could be wrong…Thanks in advance!

As a next step, you might make sure read/write permissions for your Blender prefs folder/directory haven’t changed recently at the OS level.