BILL WEMPLE!! I'm sorry, I thought I saw the email addressed from Bill Thoen. It is a Monday, so can we blame it on that. Thanks for the reply and my apologies to Bill Thoen. I had addressed an email directly to him in error, as well as to the List. I have one more question, though. You say "if you shut down without saving like above and\or have your Startup preferences set to save mapinfow.wor automatically, the option is still there". I have my Startup preferences set to save mapinfow.wor when I exit MapInfo, but the option isn't there. Am I misunderstanding you or have I maybe Set something up incorrectly with MapInfo. Thanks, Don.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hree's what I sent earlier, pretty much: This is Working as Designed One of the features specifically designed into MI Pro 7.5 & later was to clear the last Workspace Name from memory so that it would no longer be listed when a user did File>Save Workspace again. This was done after numerous feature requests over the years form users who said it was too easy to inadvertently overwrite a workspace in MI Pro versions previous to v 7.5. In a typical scenario the user: 1. Does some useful work. 2. Saves a workspace. 3. Issues File > Close All command to wipe the slate clean. 4. Does more useful work. 5. Accidently overwrites the workspace saved in step 2, because the filename in the Save Workspace dialog defaults to the name of the last saved workspace. The solution is to "clear" the name of the last saved workspace after a Close All command is issued. Therefore the Open Last Workspace option in QuickStart dialog is no longer enabled by design when user does a Close All, Exits MI Pro and restarts since its been purposely wiped clean. ** If user does not do a File>Close All, but just exits MI Pro without saving anything, then upon restart, the Open Last Workspace option should be enabled in Quick Start with the name of the last workspace opened. So, yes, it does seem like its not useful anymore, however, if you shut down without saving like above and\or have your Startup preferences set to save mapinfow.wor automatically, the option is still there when MI Pro fires back up and you can reopen open that last saved workspace. So, we'd be reluctant to remove something that still does work in that respect. Regards, -Bill Mail List: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: on 06/06/2005 10:57 AM MST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], MapInfo Directionsmag cc: Subject: Re: MI-L Quick Start Dialog in MI 7.8 never displays an option for Open Last Used Workspace Hi Bill, It seems I accidently deleted your response from my email and it wasn't posted to the list (not sure why). >From what you discribed, the name of the workspace file is removed from memory when you choose File->Close All and this is by design. This was to prevent over-writing the workspace in MapInfo due to the name of the WOR file remaining memory when saving a new WOR. If this is the case, isn't having the option to open the last workspace in the Quick Start Dialog kind of useless. I think it should be removed if this is the way MapInfo wants to go. Personally, I never had any problems with saving over another WOR file by accident, but maybe I'm lucky here. Don. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Mitchell" To: "MapInfo Directionsmag" Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 6:16 PM Subject: MI-L Quick Start Dialog in MI 7.8 never displays an option for Open Last Used Workspace >Hi Listers, > >Has anyone had this problem? When I start MapInfo Pro 7.8, the Quick Start Dialog appears, >but there is never an option to open the last Workspace I used. It is dimmed out and not >available to choose. It seems MapInfo isn't storing the name of the last used workspace. This >problem seems to have appeared with version 7.8. We have version 7.0 on another computer >and it works fine. > >Any ideas how to fix this, or is this just a flaw in version 7.8 > >Thanks in advnace. >Don. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------- Discover Yahoo! Have fun online with music videos, cool games, IM & more. Check it out!
