Many thanks to those who responded to my recent folders question.
I had Default folder lying around on my old 4GBhard disk before I upgraded to my new 27 GB one, so as suggested I installed that.
You beauty, now have recent folders.

I also had Wapp pro 2.5 installed on the old hard disk, upgraded to 3.3 as per the web page, but found it crashed the Finder all the time, so gone back to version 2.5 and seems pretty stable now. I am using OS 8.6. I've found this Wapp pro my main tool of moving around to various files and folders. Thanks to those who suggested it some time ago.

Gary Dorn
Permaculture architect
North Perth
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