'Open Recent' menu item bug and trashing Preferences
May 14th, 2011, 09:17
Hi all,
I hope I'm not 'skiing' into trouble on this, but I've read Peter Schwartz's great hub article on resetting Logic's Preference Files,
[url]http://www.macprovideo.com/hub/logic-pro/trash-talk-guide-reset-logics-preference-files[/url]
and I'm contemplating committing 'troubleshooting voodoo'. Or, as Rounik might deliciously describe it, I'm thinking of putting Logic on a 'detox diet'.
Here's the issue:
My 'Open Recent' menu item is not functioning since upgrading from OS10.5.8 (or whatever the last iteration of Leopard was) to OS 10.6.6. In Logic, TextEdit, Pages, and maybe other Applications as well, only items that are currently open in the application appear in the 'Open Recent' list. If I close the app, and then open it again, it shows nothing in that list.
Also, whenever I launch Logic, it doesn't open to my most recent or existing projects like I've asked it to in General Preferences. It will open to an 'open' menu (the menu says 'open' as it's heading) that lists either all of my projects, or some of my most recently used projects, but this is not like the 'Open Recent' option I seem to be missing from the above mentioned apps. I've tried all the different options for preferences that would control or change this behavior, (Preferences>General>Project Handling>Startup Action) but Logic does not follow this 'logically'.
I've been getting along ok like this, as it doesn't usually effect my workflow much, (I know it seems like a very minor issue), but there are two reasons why I'm asking about this now:
1. I'm doing a show involving 9 classes, each with their own Logic project, and it would be much easier to be able to access those projects, in order, from the 'Open Recent' list under file in the menu bar or Logic.
2. I just got a new MBP, yeah!, and my own version of Logic 9 (the version I've been using is my school's Logic 9 academic version). I've copied all of my Logic projects to an external drive, and I'm going to load them into my new version of Logic on my new MBP. Will I be corrupting anything on the new Logic 9 or the new MBP if I don't trash the Preferences first from the school's version? Will the new version of Logic behave with the same 'Open Recent' glitch if I open projects imported from the school's version into my new one without fixing the bug first?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks,
Adam
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