Recent.ini doesn't have any visible corruption to my eye. The [Recent] section is at the end of the file, and the file ends with the second "recent" file and a CR/LF. But after that initial success, nothing's being added to it. Toggling the "local" setting doesn't seem to have an effect, either.
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