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how i can delete favorite once for all

Anonymous — Fri, 27 May 2011 09:18:59 GMT

Hello there as you can see in the picture if i delete the tool in favorite one by one it is going to take long time so what is the suitable solution for this?

Re: how i can delete favorite once for all

Laszlo Nagy — Fri, 27 May 2011 12:10:19 GMT

Here is a trick you can use.
You will have to do it once, but then it will be faster:
1. Delete all your Favorites one by one (no shortcut here).
2. Export Favorites (it will save a PRF file with no Favorites in it.)
3. Any time in the future you need to delete all Favorites, just import this saved PRF file. It will delete all your favorites and load the content of this file instead, which contains no Favorites.

Re: how i can delete favorite once for all

Anonymous — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 10:37:53 GMT

Since two years have passed since this question was last asked, is there now a way to select multiple favourites to delete, instead of deleting them one by one? I don't want to get rid of all of them, but I still need to delete lots of superseded ones.

Re: how i can delete favorite once for all

Laszlo Nagy — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 10:59:28 GMT

As far as I know, you can delete them only one by one.
I used to have a Favorites file saved that was completely empty (no Favorites defined in it). I could just loaded it to have an empty Favorites Palette.
But I don't have a solution for a case where you would like to delete, for example, 40% of your Favorites by deleting multiple ones at a time.

Re: how i can delete favorite once for all

Barry Kelly — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 11:02:43 GMT

Nope you still have to delete one by one.
We also can't save just specific favourites - it is all or nothing.
And we need to be able to organise them into a folder type structure instead of on huge, long list.
One day there may be improvements (insert wishful thinking emoticon here).

Barry.

Re: how i can delete favorite once for all

Anonymous — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 01:25:47 GMT

Thanks Laz & Barry.
At least now I know I'm not missing out on yet another amazing-yet-undocumented function

Re: how i can delete favorite once for all

Laszlo Nagy — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 11:37:31 GMT

It would be nice if Favorites, as well as any other kind of setting that can be saved, would be saved to XML.
That way we could open the XML and manually edit it. That would be a kind of a solution.

Re: how i can delete favorite once for all

Anonymous — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 13:35:56 GMT

I do not even understand where I can delete favorites.
I tried Windows/Palettes/Favorites, selected one favorite and tried to delete, but no. So where do I have to do this?

Re: how i can delete favorite once for all

Eduardo Rolon — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 14:04:36 GMT

You have to select the triangle.

Re: how i can delete favorite once for all

Paul King — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 12:19:42 GMT

ejrolon wrote:
You have to select the triangle.

Umm. there is no triangle - at least for windows in AC19 on PC

Re: how i can delete favorite once for all

Barry Kelly — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 01:19:32 GMT

Paul wrote:
ejrolon wrote:
You have to select the triangle.
Umm. there is no triangle - at least for windows in AC19 on PC

Yes there is but only in the favourites palette.
You won't find it in the element settings "apply favourites" dialogue.

Barry.

Re: how i can delete favorite once for all

Balint Bognar — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 16:46:54 GMT

I know it's an old topic but I think it's worth note that since ARCHICAD 20 you can delete multiple favorites with one action. And they can be arranged into a folder structure too.

To delete all favorites at once:
Open the Favorite palette,

On the upper pane of the palette, select the top level folder ("Favorites"),

On the lower pane, select all the folders (e.g. by a single click on the first folder and then a shift+click on the last folder in the list)

Click the "Delete Favorite or Folder" button (red X) on the bottom of the palette.

You can selectively delete multiple (but not all) favorites too. Play around with the settings and search abilities of the palette to select the ones you want to get rid of.