removing favorites

We recently had our server go down so all my favorites no long work. I
now have several directories I would like to remove. The only way I
have been able to do that in the past we to go to the directory that I
want to remove and click on the "favorites" icon, my choices are
"remove location" and "browse favorites" so I click on "remove
location". That works fine if you can navagate to that location but
now that our server is back up, the server is at a different location
so the original location doesn't exsist. Anyone know how to remove the
old favorites I have in my list?

 

An added note, I am using WF3

 

We recently had our server go down so all my favorites no long work. I
now have several directories I would like to remove. The only way I
have been able to do that in the past we to go to the directory that I
want to remove and click on the "favorites" icon, my choices are
"remove location" and "browse favorites" so I click on "remove
location". That works fine if you can navagate to that location but
now that our server is back up, the server is at a different location
so the original location doesn't exsist. Anyone know how to remove the
old favorites I have in my list?


Go to C:\Documents and Settings\[yourname]\Application Data\PTC\ProENGINEER\Wildfire\.wf\.Settings and delete the file called web_favorites.xml

David Janes

 

Thanks for that.

As a curiosity

Yeah, that's how I found it, not long ago, while trying to figure out what was going on in that whole area of the OS. With Pro/E, you never know. They try to be completely self-contained because of their one-size-fits-all distribution: max in common, small adaptations, all on a few CDs, the same ones no matter what your OS. PTCSetup takes care of the rest. In this case, the Browser business is so far out of their normal installation, I think they did the right thing in making it more app related, putting the data files where similar ones are stored for other apps. Plus, they're trying to be very JAVAish, might have something to do with it.

Out of curiosity (again, and if it's of interest); where would it be
on a Unix (Mozilla?) system? Or is there even a comparable 'feature'?


Just a guess, based on above, that it'd be where Mozilla normally stores its bookmarks, but in a folder called PTC etc.


David Janes

 

It would be $HOME/.wf/.Settings/web_favorites.xml

 

Thanks, of course my computer isn't set up with the same path so I
just did a search on the entire c: drive but came up with no such
file, nothing on the server that we store our files either. Any other
suggestions?

 

David, even though I could not find this file on my computer, the guy
I was helping who had the problem found it exactly where you said it
was. For some reason, my computer is different, I don't have the
"application data" in my computer but that's ok, I don't have this
problem on my computer anyway! The guy who has the problem, also named
David, sends you a big THANKS!

 

David, even though I could not find this file on my computer, the guy
I was helping who had the problem found it exactly where you said it
was. For some reason, my computer is different, I don't have the
"application data" in my computer but that's ok, I don't have this
problem on my computer anyway! The guy who has the problem, also named
David, sends you a big THANKS!
Glad to help. BTW, the file and directory structure may not be created until you use the new WF Browser to create Favorites which could explain why yours is different.

David Janes