Where is opening box to choose project to open AC

[Erika Epstein]

The opening dialogue box where you can choose which project etc. you want to open has disappeared again on my various ACs.

Where is the setting for this again?

[Laura Yanoviak]

File > New & Reset All

[Erika Epstein]

Thanks Laura, this has been driving me nuts for a few months now.
Any one know why after all these years this has started happening?

[Laura Yanoviak]

You can turn it off by checking the "Do not Display this Dialog Next Time" box in the dialog. Maybe it was accidentally checked, or there some-sort-of "System Variable" (in ACAD terms) that switched it off?

[Karl Ottenstein]

There is also a preference / registry setting if you want to dig into that and avoid resetting other things that new & reset does. (I thought there was a UI preference checkbox somewhere but cannot find it - only the one in the dialog itself to now show it again.)

For Mac, com.graphisoft.AC 13[version.plist has

WorkEnvironment > StartupDialogEnabled

just check the item to re-enable the dialog. Did not fire up Windows to look, but I assume it is something like current user > Software > Graphisoft > [AC 13 version thing] > WorkEnvironment > etc

Cheers,
Karl

[Laszlo Nagy]

It is:

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Graphisoft\ArchiCAD\ArchiCAD 13.0.0 USA R1\WorkEnvironment and set the StartupDialogEnabled value to 1.

[Erika Epstein]

Thank you both for how to fix this. I am always a bit nervous going into registry settings on my own.

I did file a bug report on this as it shouldn't be happening. If GS wants it to be a choice, then there should be a UI setting for it as we all looked for.

[Laszlo Nagy]

I think you can "freely abuse" the Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Graphisoft part of the registry.
If anything goes wrong you can just delete the whole thing and ArchiCAD will recreate it the next time you run it.