Freehand 10 toolbars

[Finntastic webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Ok guys and gals. I'm using Freehand 10 and all of the sudden my toolbars will not show up. The main tools pallette is gone also and will not come back. I have tried deleting the preferences but that didn't help at all. I'm on a G5 running Panther if that helps.
Any suggestions?

-Jeff

[maxman23 webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Know where you found the preferences? Look in the same "Settings folder." Go to a folder marked "Toolbars." Trash the "Toolbars" file located in there. Re-launch FH and you should be right as rain.

The same thing happens to me once in a blue moon. FH has been delicate about prefs and toolbars for eons now. Really quite annoying. A wonderful app, but sometimes it gets tiring having to burp the baby so much.

Max
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Max MacDonald
Toronto

[Finntastic webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Awesome work! Thanks so much Max. That was starting to drive me crazy. I appreciate your quick response.

-Jeff

[maxman23 webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Hey, you're welcome, Jeff! The thing I hate most about this bug is that, once your toolbar settings are corrupted and you've been forced to trash the settings file, you have to painstakingly recreate your custom tool/palette positions. I have a smaller monitor that's reserved for palettes in all my graphics apps, but remembering where every control component of FH was situated before is sometimes a bit trying.

Anyway, glad it worked. Cheers.

Max
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Max MacDonald
Toronto

[Judy Arndt]

Here's what I do. When I have my toolbars set up as I like them, I quit FH,
go to the Toolbars folder and make a duplicate copy of the toolbars file.
Then when the working copy gets corrupted, I trash the bad one, make a copy
of my duplicate, call it 'Toolbars', and I'm back in business.

Judy Arndt


maxman23 wrote:

> Hey, you're welcome, Jeff! The thing I hate most about this bug is that, once
> your toolbar settings are corrupted and you've been forced to trash the
> settings file, you have to painstakingly recreate your custom tool/palette
> positions. I have a smaller monitor that's reserved for palettes in all my
> graphics apps, but remembering where every control component of FH was
> situated before is sometimes a bit trying.

[maxman23 webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

D'oh! Of course, Judy! Thanks for the suggestion. Glad to see I'm not the only one that's had this happen. It's weird - I remember this sort of thing happening since version 5.5, when I started using it again after having first started with FH back in version 2 or 3, when it was an Aldus product.

Max
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Max MacDonald
Toronto

[Wes Rand]

Judy Arndt wrote:

> Here's what I do. When I have my toolbars set up as I like them, I quit FH,
> go to the Toolbars folder and make a duplicate copy of the toolbars file.
> Then when the working copy gets corrupted, I trash the bad one, make a copy
> of my duplicate, call it 'Toolbars', and I'm back in business.
>
> Judy Arndt
>

Great suggestion! Just went off and did the same. Always cool to find
some new tidbit of knowledge in this group.

-Wes

[birman]

Hi, while i was working mistakely i drag my tool bar and hide behind the window. in my toolbar my tool bar option is on but i can't see tool bar and i couldn't drag tool bar from that hidden place so please how can i drag out my toolbar from out of window.

thank you
best regards
Birman