General questions about using TextPad
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MichaelG17
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by MichaelG17 » Fri Jun 29, 2012 9:46 pm
I have just upgraded from 5. something to 6.1
The two items below are not visible in the drop down menus.
New Check for Updates command on the Help menu.
New Appearance command on the View menu to choose the UI appearance.
Is there a box I have to check somewhere to make the commands appear?
MichaelG
MichaelG17
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by MichaelG17 » Fri Jul 06, 2012 9:59 pm
Am I the only one who has this issue?
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by PeteTheBloke » Mon Jul 09, 2012 1:05 pm
They are there for me. That doesn't help you much!
ak47wong
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by ak47wong » Mon Jul 09, 2012 1:17 pm
You seem to be the only one with this problem so far. Try exiting TextPad and renaming the ConfigState.xml and GUIState.xml files in the folder %APPDATA%\Helios\TextPad\6 and see if that helps.
MichaelG17
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by MichaelG17 » Mon Jul 09, 2012 11:10 pm
>Try exiting TextPad and renaming the ConfigState.xml and GUIState.xml files in the folder %APPDATA%\Helios\TextPad\6 and see if that helps.
Rename them what?
Or just give them any name?
Michael
ak47wong
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by ak47wong » Tue Jul 10, 2012 12:11 am
Just give them any name, so that TextPad will create new config files when you next run it.
MichaelG17
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by MichaelG17 » Tue Jul 10, 2012 12:48 am
>Try exiting TextPad and renaming the ConfigState.xml and GUIState.xml files in the folder %APPDATA%\Helios\TextPad\6 and see if that helps.
Where do I find the folder %APPDATA%\Helios\TextPad\6 ?
Michael
ak47wong
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by ak47wong » Tue Jul 10, 2012 2:04 am
1. Exit TextPad.
2. Open the following folder in Windows Explorer:
On Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\username \Application Data\Helios\TextPad\6
On Windows Vista or Windows 7: C:\Users\username \AppData\Roaming\Helios\TextPad\6
3. Rename ConfigState.xml to ConfigState.bak and GUIState.xml to GUIState.bak .
4. Restart TextPad.
MichaelG17
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by MichaelG17 » Tue Jul 10, 2012 10:06 am
Thank you! that was successful!
I can now see both items in their respective menus.
Michael
fuzzy
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by fuzzy » Thu Jul 26, 2012 4:38 pm
MichaelG17 wrote: Am I the only one who has this issue?
Nope, I had exactly the same problem. Deleting the config files fixed it, but lost a bunch of config settings that I then had to manually recreate.