topic Re: Restoring the "Open File - What Do You Want to Do&a in Installation & update

Restoring the "Open File - What Do You Want to Do" dialog

Aaron Bourgoin — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 16:24:12 GMT

Is there a setting to restore the Open File StartUp dialog box? I've dialled this by accident and now have to start ArchiCAD and let it open a new file before I can access this dialog.

I scoured the preferences for a button, but haven't found anything that is relevant. Thanks!

Re: Restoring the "Open File - What Do You Want to Do&a

Karl Ottenstein — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 17:25:47 GMT

Hi Aaron,

http://helpcenter.graphisoft.com/guides/archicad-18-int-reference-guide/configuration/start-archicad/

To enable it again, use the File > New & Reset All command.

Have to press the Alt/Opt key for File > New & Reset All to show up.

Seems kind of brute force... would be nice to have a simple WE checkbox for it.

Re: Restoring the "Open File - What Do You Want to Do&a

Karl Ottenstein — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 17:31:18 GMT

If you want to get the dialog back without changing anything else that a New & Reset does (I'm not really sure of how many things that changes) ... there is a plist item you can change to 'YES' if you want to get down and dirty... see attached. For Windows folks, I assume there is a similar Registry setting...

The plist is in ~/Library/Preferences ... screenshot is the Xcode editor.

Re: Restoring the "Open File - What Do You Want to Do&a

Karl Ottenstein — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 17:36:20 GMT

Here's a text editor view of the plist XML file, search for the word 'Startup'. Yours will show "<false/> where my screenshot shows <true/>. Just change it/save.

Re: Restoring the "Open File - What Do You Want to Do&a

David Maudlin — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 12:15:01 GMT

Aaron:

Go to your Work Environment and add the command Enable All Informational Messages..., this will bring back all the dialog boxes where you checked the "Do not show this again" box.

David