TimG Posted November 2, 2012 Share Posted November 2, 2012 I have a file that keeps crashing VW... unfortunately i can not move on because my Mac keeps trying to auto open that corrupt file when I relaunch vectorworks. so how do I clear this last opened file list, or prevent VW from auto opening files it thinks it had open before the last crash... I'm dead in the water until I figure this out... I tried restarting the OS to no avail. Quote Link to comment
Kevin McAllister Posted November 2, 2012 Share Posted November 2, 2012 The easiest way would be to temporarily move the file out of its current folder. Vectorworks won't find it so it won't open it. KM Quote Link to comment
TimG Posted November 2, 2012 Author Share Posted November 2, 2012 that somewhat did the trick... i tried renaming, putting in a sub folder with no luck... I had to copy the file to a network drive, and physically delete the problem file on my desktop. thanks for the info Quote Link to comment
Kevin McAllister Posted November 2, 2012 Share Posted November 2, 2012 The auto-open feature is related to the operating system so perhaps its smart enough to find relocated files. (Vectorworks itself is not.) You can turn it off under Vectorworks Preferences>Session>Enable Mac OS Restore Functionality for Vectorworks. KM Quote Link to comment
TimG Posted November 2, 2012 Author Share Posted November 2, 2012 thank you, I figured thats what it was doing, and i would love to disable that, but alas, I can not find any such setting... am I am blind, or was this a preference toggle added in a later versions (i am on vectorworks 2011) looked in other tabs of preferences but couldn't find anything with similar wording Quote Link to comment
atari2600 Posted November 2, 2012 Share Posted November 2, 2012 Does holding the "Option" key down while clicking on the VW icon do anything different? Although I use VW on a PC at work, it seems that holding the option key while opening programs on my Mac seems to open things up differently - (like a default mode.) My wild guess is there might be an .xml document which might have the recently saved files (and their locations) written into it. I would imagine there is someone out there who know's how to locate that particular file, and remove the bad file path. good luck. Quote Link to comment
Kevin McAllister Posted November 2, 2012 Share Posted November 2, 2012 I believe the preference toggle is new in VW 2013. The option seemed to be auto-enabled in older versions of Vectorworks by a recent Apple system update. I've noticed it when I've opened things in VW 2012. Kevin Quote Link to comment
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