All my filters disappeared!

[tbessie]

Hello folks...

After the last update I did to BC3, all my custom file filters just disappeared!
The default ones that came preinstalled are still there, however.

Is this a known problem?

- Tim

[Aaron]

No, it is not.

Do you know which version you were running and which version you updated to? Are all of your other settings in place?

I assume you are referring to the Filter Presets in the Tools menu -> Options dialog, Folder Views section. Were they saved here with custom titles, or were they an MRU list?

[tbessie]

No, it is not.

Do you know which version you were running and which version you updated to? Are all of your other settings in place?

I assume you are referring to the Filter Presets in the Tools menu -> Options dialog, Folder Views section. Were they saved here with custom titles, or were they an MRU list?

Yes, that's the correct context where my filters disappeared.

Unfortunately, I can't recall when this happened, since I didn't notice it until just recently... it happened sometime along the way in the last few months.

I'm running 3.3.5, latest build.

I wish I could give more info, but I wasn't paying enough attention between updates to see when this happened. I'll let you folks know if I see it happen again, and note the specifics.

There's always the possibility that I did something nutsy myself and deleted them by accident, but I don't recall doing that (I've had this installed on the computer this happened on since around May).

I believe they had been saved with custom titles.

In any case, they were filters to ignore non-essential files in Java app source trees (CVS subdirectories, generated .class files, etc.), so I was able to recreate some facsimile of them pretty easily, so it's not a great tragedy.

- Tim

[Aaron]

Hello,

As a general tip and to help track this, you can always Export your settings using the Tools menu -> Export, then update, then Export again and compare the two generated zip files for differences. This would also allow you to re-import anything if it were lost during the update.

[tbessie]

Hello,

As a general tip and to help track this, you can always Export your settings using the Tools menu -> Export, then update, then Export again and compare the two generated zip files for differences. This would also allow you to re-import anything if it were lost during the update.

Thanks Aaron! I'll back up my settings in case it happens again.

- Tim