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As an initial troubleshooting step open vlc and go to Tools ---> Preferences (or hit CTRL + P). At the bottom click the Reset Preferences button. Save, exit and restart vlc.

That worked! Thank you so much!

Do you have "Save recently played items" checkmarked in the Tools ---> Preferences ---> "Playlist / Network Interaction" submenu?

If it's not checkmarked vlc will clear the cache on exit.

I just checked and yes it is already checkmarked.

For the past few weeks I cannot get the continue playback to work. Initially, I could just exit VLC and it would pick up where i left off, without me needing to do anything. Then one day it just stopped. I checked settings. Changed the option from "ask" to "always". I tried unins...