Greg, that's a long and confusing thread - things that work seem to be at the very end of it. Interesting that it applies to VS2010 (your problem with VS2012).
Did you mean this: I have found that I can export my current settings, then reset all settings, then import selected settings, but exclude the window layouts (General Settings > Window Layouts) and it works. If it works, it's much less disruptive than resetting all your settings. Tuesday, September 06, 2011 2:19 AM MichaelCsikos Or the simpler the only thing that worked for me, and which is pretty simple is: open the cmd.exe type "devenv /resetsettings" it will restart visual studio and my files were saved again afterwards Wednesday, April 18, 2012 9:31 AM Electrocution _____ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2013 4:42 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Visual Studio forgets opened files Just a quick follow-up on this problem from last week. After bumbling around in web searches I eventually came upon THIS <http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/dfe4100a-6228-46ab-89 f3-5c3c05ab5098/visual-studio-2010-ultimate-doesnt-remember-previously-opene d-files> . I exported by settings, reset them, then imported all settings except Windows Layouts and it's looking okay. I suspected something like this would solve the problem, but I couldn't face hours of experiments to try the various combinations. Luckily someone did it first. I'm actually sceptical that omitting the Windows Layouts was critical to the fix, as perhaps the reset step simply fixed things, but I can't waste time trying to find the exact fix steps. Also, months ago I had changed VS2012 settings Environment > Import and Export Settings > Automatically save my settings to this file ... to point to a file on a network shared drive letter which was regularly backed up. After running the reset steps above and running VS2012 as Admin I was getting a file access error because the network shared letter was unknown to admin. I changed it to \\unc <file:///\\unc> format and fixed the problem, but it's weird I never saw that error in previous months. Greg K
