Comment 7 for bug 848852

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@Jan - please try this:

1) open a new terminal window (Applications > Utilities > Terminal
2) enter the following command:
mkdir -p ~/.local/share
3) quit the terminal

Recent GTK+ versions do not create the hidden directory which stores the bookmark file for recently used files (shared by all Gtk+ applications), and subsequently fail to remember recently opened files across sessions. [1]

Note: AFAIU Jan's issue on OS X is unlikely related to the reported issue here (bug #848852) with the Windows port of Inkscape (the location of the Gtk+ bookmarks file on Windows is not hidden, nor inside nested folders which don't exist on a new system).

[1] Upstream report for Gtk+ e.g. <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671817>
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