Lost Toolboxes Etc.

Hi

Today I opened mstn and found a bare workspace. All my toobox settings were lost - none were open. I'm using the same workspace/user/project etc. on open as when I closed out last night.

My Key-in spot is gone. The bottom where status messages, key-in window, and where I parked AccuDraw, were all gone except for the status messages. Further, it seems to not fit into the available space anymore - if I dock AccuDraw it is off the screen to the left and I can't see it. There is no place to change views anymore.

What happened? How can I restore it to how it was? I can open the toolboxes again (although I can't seem to find the one that open the Model dialog, it only wants me to create new models from the Models toolbox), but the AccuDraw and key-in missing have me concerned.

I don't know of any environment changes, though IT maybe installed a Windows update last night - I do not know.

V8i SS3

thanks

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  • Ugh. I got things as best I could. But then on opening it was all lost again. The attached show what I am seeing when I open. Ordinarily there'd be several toolbars, the menu (with File, Edit, etc.) is usually on top, and the issues I reported at the bottom are still there.

  • I would check to see that you have read/write privileges to your "prefs" folder.

    Timothy Hickman

    CADD Manager | CADD Department

    timothy.hickman@colliersengineering.com

    Main: 877 627 3772| 

    1000 Waterview Drive Suite 201 | Hamilton, New Jersey 08691

  • I will do so. I should - nothing's changed. I was going to look at my <user>.ucf, too, to see if anything looks funny.
  • I have write privileges to the prefs folder. My <user>.upf was last modified at the end of the day yesterday. it's compiled, so I don't know what is in here. but I think that I will ask IT to restore it to before the last modification and hope it works.

    thanks for the help.
  • or is it my <user>.mnu file? this is what I found, which seems to address my missing stuff. but why it isn't loading I do not know. Maybe there is a variable that was changed?

    $FK5.0$ 8/26/2010 8:32:47 AM
    302,task menu
    303,inputmanager menu main
    304,inputmanager currenttask
    305,dialog viewsettings popup
    306,dialog namedviews
    309,inputmanager cmdbrowse
    30a,dialog toolsettings
    30b,accudraw dialog
    30c,inputmanager home
    1301,inputmanager popupitem Attributes,1
    1302,inputmanager popupitem Attributes,2
    1304,inputmanager popupitem Attributes,4
    1303,inputmanager popupitem Attributes,3
    1305,inputmanager popupitem Attributes,5
    1306,inputmanager popupitem Attributes,6
    1307,inputmanager popupitem Attributes,7
    1308,inputmanager popupitem Attributes,8
    1309,inputmanager popupitem Attributes,9
    130a,inputmanager popupitem Attributes,10
    b01,inputmanager popupitem Primary Tools,1
    b02,inputmanager popupitem Primary Tools,2
    b03,inputmanager popupitem Primary Tools,3
    b04,inputmanager popupitem Primary Tools,4
    b05,inputmanager popupitem Primary Tools,5
    b06,inputmanager popupitem Primary Tools,6
    b07,inputmanager popupitem Primary Tools,7
    b08,inputmanager popupitem Primary Tools,8
    b09,inputmanager popupitem Primary Tools,9
    b0a,inputmanager popupitem Primary Tools,10
    b0b,inputmanager popupitem Primary Tools,11
    b0c,inputmanager popupitem Primary Tools,12
    301,help
    308,activate readonlymethod MainMenu2|Open
  • Did the steps in the attached links not resolve your problem?

    technet.microsoft.com/.../ms14-079 and support.microsoft.com/.../3002885
    communities.bentley.com/.../15905.toolboxes-disappear

  • I didn't try, but will look now to see if there is something I can prevent.

    BUT ... IT restored <user>.upf for me last night and I have my workspace back to how it was this morning. somehow that file had a write to it or something and became corrupted or something.
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