topic Re: HOW TO DELETE DEFAULT FAVORITE LIST in Modeling

HOW TO DELETE DEFAULT FAVORITE LIST

Llian — Thu, 26 May 2016 07:00:07 GMT

I opened the Favorite palette for the first time in AC 17 and noticed there is a long list of favorites. How do I delete them without having to go through one by one?

Re: HOW TO DELETE DEFAULT FAVORITE LIST

Barry Kelly — Thu, 26 May 2016 07:24:39 GMT

Unfortunately this is the only way (that I know of).

What I did was delete them all and then save a favourite file with just one empty fill favourite (you must have at least one favourite).

Now if I need to delete them (so I can create new favourites and save just those new ones) I load this empty fill file and 'replace' it with the existing favourites.

This allows me to save individual or small groups of favourites that I can 'merge' into any other file.

This of course all changes with version 20 where we will have much better control over the favourites.

Attached is an "empty fill" favourite that I saved in version 15 so you should be able to use that in any newer version. You will have to unzip it.

Barry.

Re: HOW TO DELETE DEFAULT FAVORITE LIST

Llian — Thu, 26 May 2016 07:32:02 GMT

Thank you so much Barry for the empty fill palette. I have just replaced it and now I can go to sleep at 1 am here! Thanks again!

Re: HOW TO DELETE DEFAULT FAVORITE LIST

Barry Kelly — Thu, 26 May 2016 07:39:49 GMT

Llian wrote:
Thank you so much Barry for the empty fill palette. I have just replaced it and now I can go to sleep at 1 am here! Thanks again!

Glad it worked for you.
It may be set to use a layer to my particular template (Fills) so I resaved it to use the Archicad layer and have re-newed the attachment.

Barry.

Re: HOW TO DELETE DEFAULT FAVORITE LIST

Erwin Edel — Thu, 26 May 2016 08:18:16 GMT

That's a brilliant idea, Barry, allthough the local coffee branche might have a drop in sales when next I have to purge a whole bunch of useless favourites after a library upgrade

Re: HOW TO DELETE DEFAULT FAVORITE LIST

Laszlo Nagy — Thu, 26 May 2016 10:33:04 GMT

As Barry mentioned ARCHICAD 20 will manage Favorites much better. This means you will be able to select all Favorites and Favorites folders and delete all of them in a single step, if needed.