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Vault - lost left hand selection menu.

larry4

Complete CS beginner, but have use a lot of other packages. Tried to do something about the column filtering problem (i.e. way too many columns, filtering is not saved). Have lost the left hand menu of the Vault. How to get it back?

 

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  • 0

    Hi, 

    I'm writing from my phone but on your picture, to the right of the line with:

    Top -> Unified Components-> Components -> Analog Device,

    and to the left of the search bar, the are some buttons like refresh and some that by clicking might solve your issue.

  • 0 in reply to mars01

    Hi - I have already clicked on every button in the Vault windows, dragged every edge I can find and done File->System Preferences->Reset Layout

     

    Without success :/

  • 0 in reply to larry4

    This seems easy to replicate as a problem. If anyone wants to try it I would recommend making a system restore point first so you can recover what ever registry settings are controlling this.  This condition seems to happen if you resize the folder tree pane to minimum.  Then it disappears entirely.  You can then press the show/hide folder tree button/icon and it will slightly shift the vault folders pane.  However, you cannot resize the pane back to where it shows the folders.  Seems like a bug to me.

     

    I got mine back by doing a system restore from my last restore point after this happened.

  • 0

    Thnx - AFAIK I don't have a restore point - any registry entry to delete / change to default (I assume that the window positions is stored in a key)?

     

    NB for the record, this issue came about due to me trying to resize as a work-around for the unusable column view in the Vault (way too many columns) - not just out of idle "messing around".

  • 0 in reply to larry4

    I didn't try to find the associated registry key but maybe CircuitStudio tech support can locate it and describe a fix short of re-installation.  It is surprisingly easy to do what you did.

  • 0 in reply to tarribred61

    Is this the CS tech support place (do they monitor these conversations - if not how to contact?

  • 0 in reply to larry4

    Hi Laurens. This is the tech support place for CS. It is monitored by Altium and element14 personnel so we are now aware there is an issue with the vault window, however we are still investigating for a fix.

  • 0 in reply to e14softwareuk

    Found a work around:

    Windows -> Add/Remove programs -> CircuitStudio -> select "Remove Preferences"

    Then restart CS, login again to CS account - this resets the dialog placements (and everything else).

  • 0 in reply to larry4

    Fantastic solution Laurens, many thanks for sharing.

     

    If you don't wish to reset all data and are happy using the registry editor (regedit.exe) then you can restore the tree view by editing a single entry, set this to a non-zero value (e.g. 100) to restore the left tree view. The {guid} value in the string will be unique to your installation of CircuitStudio.

     

    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\

      Software\

        Altium\

          CircuitStudio {guid}\

            DesignExplorer\

              Preferences\

                EDesignData\

                  VaultExplorer_Size_B7D15EC3-160A-466F-A46C-7801FE6295A7\

                    TreePanelWidth

  • 0 in reply to e14softwareuk

    Thanks - I'll mark it as the correct answer - though I have not tried it myself.

     

    PS - somewhere on the web I found (and lost) a page that showed how to perform a more effective Vault component search that didn't result in all those columns (which makes the search function effectively useless), and which was the start of this thread. Can anyone remember where this was and send me a link?