We analyse long-term optical photometry for two Galactic recurrent novae ( V745 Sco and V3890 Sgr ) and one Large Magellanic Cloud object ( Nova LMC 1990b ) observed over several years by the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment ( OGLE ) sky survey .
We do not find variability with the previously claimed orbital period of V745 Sco .
This voids previous findings based on this value ( e.g .
the distance determination ) .
The quiescence variability of this object is dominated by semiregular pulsations of the red giant secondary ( with periods of 136.5 and 77.4 d ) .
The photometry of Nova LMC 1990b reveals an unnoticed eruption in 2010 and eclipse-like variability in quiescence with a period of 1.26432 ( 8 ) d. The photometric properties make this object very similar to U Sco .
Finally , we describe the eruptions of two likely symbiotic novae , V5590 Sgr and OGLE-2011-BLG-1444 .
The secondary of V5590 Sgr is a Mira star with pulsation period of 236 d .