Final Cut Pro 11.0.1 Not Remembering Recent Libraries

Well, if you could see me now, you would see one great omelet on my face (i.e., egg).

As it turns out, I had incorrectly set an item in the system settings (System Settings > Control Center Modules > Recent documents, applications, and servers.) I had mistakenly set it to "none," where it had previously meant "10." I suspect that I had attempted to set an entry above it, yet I had mistakenly set the wrong entry that controls the number of "remembered" documents (in this case, Final Cut Pro Libraries). (see the attached graphic).

Thank you, everyone, for your time and suggestions. In this particular case, it's "my bad." I hope this helps someone else in diagnosing the situation.

I consider this "bug" as "user error" which can now be closed.

All right, now the plot thickens.

I logged on to an alternate user I have for myself on my system and started up Final Cut Pro there, and all is fine with recent libraries. This is somewhat baffling because I have completely uninstalled and reinstalled Final Cut Pro twice, deleting everything that's in Final Cut Pro in any directory, and my main user still has the problem (i.e., no recents).

So, this appears to be some kind of corruption on my main user ID that is not on my alternate user ID. The trick will be isolating it to find out what is different. Usually, when you completely uninstall, reinstall, and then relaunch, everything becomes operable again. By relaunch, I mean restart the machine and then relaunch a particular application.

If I can isolate what has gone wrong, I will post it back here. But for now, there seems to be some sort of unknown corruption with my main user ID.

More updates to this problem.

It turns out I went back to the login that was working on my system mentioned above and tried a couple more clear recent in the file open library dialogue, and this problem happened there as well.

This now seems to be a FCP bug. Please note that none of the previous suggestions for this problem, such as resetting FCP settings (i.e., starting with CMD-OPT) or checking if you have full disk access (System Settings > Privacy and Security), will not resolve this problem so far.

I will post here again should I receive something from Apple or figure out this on my own.

As I said in my posting, I did the settings reset. I didn’t note that I check the disk permissions and all is set.

Perhaps you would pay closer attention to postings in the future and note what is said. I also indicated that everything was working fine just prior to resetting the current list by deleting it. But thanks anyway for your posting. Thus any of the "check this or that" stuff relevant.

But thank you for your suggestions.

They are on my M1 Ultra SSD WHERE THEY WERE WHEN IT WORKED JUST BEFORE DELTING THE LIST.

Please don't respond with vapid responses like this. IF IT WAS WORKING JUST BEFORE I DELETED THE LIST AND NOW DOESN'T, THEN THAT IMPLIES A BUG IN THE DELETING LIST FUNCTION(S).

I have reported this to Apple and will see how it goes.

Thanks, but I am not changing my system.

as noted below if you've read and understood, this all worked just fine before installing the recent Final Cut Pro 11.0.1 update.

Your notations are therefore unhelpful. 

My system has worked just fine and still does with the one exception of Final Cut Pro 11.0.1. 

As requested. Note too that etrecheck denoted macOS 15.3 as "beta" but it is not.

macOS Sequoia 15.3 Release Notes | Apple Developer Documentation