At 15:34 29/08/2009 -0700, John Gregson wrote:
I am using a PC with Vista 32
I have noticed that when I use the "Open an Existing Database File"
option, click on the down arrow, I get a lot of 'garbage' in the List.
You should have the names of database files that you have previously
referenced, even some you may have moved or deleted.
There are about 6-8 items there, there should only be 2.
File names are only garbage if you are no longer interested in the
files; Base cannot know which these might be.
Some of the file names have odd characters, such as "%" (without the
quotes. This is most disconcerting!
I don't find % signs disconcerting, in fact, and I hope you won't -
once you know what is happening. It seems that blanks in file names
are represented here as "%20" - by their ASCII code preceded by % as
an escape character. (Maybe some other characters are similarly handled.)
Is there any way to clean up this list?
No nice way that I can see. Do you really need to? The information
appears to be stored in the Histories.xcu file. Under Vista, this
will be stored - I'm guessing here - somewhere like
C:\Users\<login-name>\AppData\Roaming\OpenOffice.org\3\user\registry\data\org\openoffice\Office.
You could edit that file - it's plain text - but I wouldn't recommend
this practice.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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