View > Formatted not remembered?

Gerben · Post by **Gerben** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 12:25 pm

If I choose View > Formatted I get the correct pane. Upon restart, however, I see the attachment pane. It seems BE 10 remembers the wrong setting here?

Gerben

Post by **Jon** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 1:35 pm

Please try this on a fresh database and see if it remembers.

Jon
Sonny Software

Gerben · Post by **Gerben** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 2:33 pm

Ok, it remembers on a fresh database.
With my old db i still have this issue (on both MacBook and iMac). I tried deleting preferences but that does not help.
No idea if it could make a difference but: my attachments are not in the default folder that BE creates but a different one.

Gerben

Post by **Jon** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 3:43 pm

Try rebuilding your old database *without* keeping user info.

Jon
Sonny Software

Gerben · Post by **Gerben** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 5:17 am

This works. But can you say how serious this issue is? Can I leave it for the moment or is the db slowly corrupting? This would be the second time in 2 months I have to reconstruct all folders and groups of my db which takes several hours...

Gerben

Gerben · Post by **Gerben** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 7:31 am

I just found out that a one-week old backup is ok (after conversion from 9 to 10). So something must have happened in the last week with my already converted db that caused this issue.

Jon, I can send both versions if you want to check things.

Best,
Gerben

Post by **Jon** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 8:30 am

Hi,

I don't know what happened. But it's rarely helpful to send me a problematic database. What *is* helpful is if you can take an apparently good database, do something with it, and then end up with a damaged database. If these steps can be reproduced then we can determine why it happend. If it's not reproducible then it's almost impossible to figure out.

Jon
Sonny Software

Gerben · Post by **Gerben** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 4:17 pm

That makes sense yes. In this case i only have the before and after. Anyway, problem solved now and hope i do not encounter it again

One small thing: in order to update the backup with the latest additions I used the problematic db to do an export of the latest refs (thanks a lot for adding the possibility to sort on added date!). I could not import the resulting Bookends Export file, the BE10 export file that is (it remained grey in the selection window). No problems with the BE 9 export though.

Best,
Gerben

Gerben · Post by **Gerben** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 4:33 pm

I have just been able to reproduce something similar:
- make new db
- do online search for some random refs (in this case on author "Lustiger" in LoC) and import the found items
- hit apple-control-E and attachment pane appears
- close db
- restart db and instead of attachment pane the formatted pane shows

I can send the db but this worked in several cases so you can probably reproduce yourself.

Hope this helps,
Gerben

Post by **Jon** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 4:37 pm

Thanks for letting me know. You can import the file by drag and drop, but not via a get file dialog. I'll fix that for the next update.

As for remembering the attachment pane, download Bookends again and see if it works for you.

Jon
Sonny Software

Gerben · Post by **Gerben** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 5:02 pm

As for remembering the attachment pane, download Bookends again and see if it works for you.

I actually noticed it with the version i downloaded an hour ago.

Best,
Gerben

Post by **Jon** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 5:04 pm

Hi,

I tried the exact steps you listed above and Bookends remembered to show the attachment pane when the db was reopened.

Jon
Sonny Software

Gerben · Post by **Gerben** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 5:35 am

Hi Jon,

Hmm, i can still reproduce this on both my machines when making a new db. Removing the preferences files on the MacBook has no effect and gives the same result. If you would like me to send you a db let me know.

Best,
Gerben

Post by **Jon** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 7:08 am

Sure. Please zip it first.

Jon
Sonny Software