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    From Harriet Bazley@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 10 00:00:57 2024
    Having used Ovation to import a couple of Impression documents I now
    seem to have a 'history menu' of recently opened files on the app's
    iconbar menu. Unfortunately most of them have been moved/deleted, so
    clicking on the entries simply reports 'Document cannot be found' - particularly annoying in the case of the one that I *do* still need to
    update, since the valid filepath isn't getting retained but the obsolete
    one is.

    I can't see any kind of 'discard document' option when you actually do
    open a file, and I can't even find the filepaths in question stored in Boot:Choices - how do I wipe these useless menu entries?

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  • From Dave@21:1/5 to Harriet Bazley on Sun Mar 10 07:42:45 2024
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Harriet Bazley <[email protected]> wrote:
    Having used Ovation to import a couple of Impression documents I now
    seem to have a 'history menu' of recently opened files on the app's
    iconbar menu. Unfortunately most of them have been moved/deleted, so clicking on the entries simply reports 'Document cannot be found' - particularly annoying in the case of the one that I *do* still need to update, since the valid filepath isn't getting retained but the obsolete
    one is.

    I can't see any kind of 'discard document' option when you actually do
    open a file, and I can't even find the filepaths in question stored in Boot:Choices - how do I wipe these useless menu entries?

    Not sure I know the answer to your question Harriet, but pressing Ctrl
    when you click the [X] to close a document will prevent the document being
    put in the "View Document list"

    Dave

    PS: In Win OvPro, there's a menu entry at the bottom of the "Recent
    documents" list to Clear the entries.

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    Dave Triffid

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  • From Chris Hughes@21:1/5 to Harriet Bazley on Sun Mar 10 10:23:01 2024
    In message <[email protected]>
    Harriet Bazley <[email protected]> wrote:

    Having used Ovation to import a couple of Impression documents I now
    seem to have a 'history menu' of recently opened files on the app's
    iconbar menu. Unfortunately most of them have been moved/deleted, so clicking on the entries simply reports 'Document cannot be found' - particularly annoying in the case of the one that I *do* still need to update, since the valid filepath isn't getting retained but the obsolete
    one is.

    I can't see any kind of 'discard document' option when you actually do
    open a file, and I can't even find the filepaths in question stored in Boot:Choices - how do I wipe these useless menu entries?

    Harriet, You have an Ovation Pro Applet running called !Document when this
    is active it adds a menu entry on the OPro icon bar menu, called Documents

    If you want rid of this menu option, you have two choices, both involve
    going into Ovation Pro application folder, and within Ovation Pro, you
    will have an Applets folder and inside that are the Applets you have
    installed at some point. To disable the Documents menu, simply double
    click on the !Document icon and a - will appear at the end of the file
    name, this has now disabled the option. You can enable it again by simply double clicking it again and the - disappears at the end of the filename.
    Or you can simply move the applet outside OPro itself

    Note the changes do not take effect until you restart Ovation Pro.


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  • From Harriet Bazley@21:1/5 to Chris Hughes on Sun Mar 10 11:15:12 2024
    On 10 Mar 2024 as I do recall,
    Chris Hughes wrote:

    In message <[email protected]>
    Harriet Bazley <[email protected]> wrote:

    Having used Ovation to import a couple of Impression documents I now
    seem to have a 'history menu' of recently opened files on the app's
    iconbar menu. Unfortunately most of them have been moved/deleted, so clicking on the entries simply reports 'Document cannot be found' - particularly annoying in the case of the one that I *do* still need to update, since the valid filepath isn't getting retained but the obsolete one is.

    I can't see any kind of 'discard document' option when you actually do
    open a file, and I can't even find the filepaths in question stored in Boot:Choices - how do I wipe these useless menu entries?

    Harriet, You have an Ovation Pro Applet running called !Document when this
    is active it adds a menu entry on the OPro icon bar menu, called Documents

    Aha - thank you! That explains why I couldn't find any description of
    this feature anywhere in the manual.... (I don't know if my copy of
    the application arrived with a selection of applets installed by
    default, or if I added this one while I was trying to get a working
    Contents feature; I can see that it would have seemed like a good idea
    at the time.)


    If you want rid of this menu option, you have two choices, both involve
    going into Ovation Pro application folder, and within Ovation Pro, you
    will have an Applets folder and inside that are the Applets you have installed at some point. To disable the Documents menu, simply double
    click on the !Document icon and a - will appear at the end of the file
    name, this has now disabled the option. You can enable it again by simply double clicking it again and the - disappears at the end of the filename.

    Unfortunately enabling/disabling it turns out not to wipe the invalid pathnames.

    ...But hiding inside the applet itself is a data file called 'Documents'
    that does. Which also explains why I couldn't find those pathnames
    stored anywhere!

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    Harriet Bazley == Loyaulte me lie ==

    We prefer to speak evil of ourselves than not speak of ourselves at all.

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