How to delete Favorites

[DetlevH]

Hallo,

if i add a folder to the favorites by "Toggle favorite folder" and the folder does'nt exist any longer (maybe because of an USB drive) then i can't delete these favorites. If i select them using right-click, nothing happens.

Detlev

[j_c_hallgren]

Created a dummy test folder to try this out...marked as Favorite...deleted it...then was able to remove it from Favorites via List Management just fine...which is only way that I see to delete a non-existing folder...so how are you trying to do it?

If i select them using right-click, nothing happens.

Where exactly are you trying to right-click on them?

[DetlevH]

Created a dummy test folder to try this out...marked as Favorite...deleted it...then was able to remove it from Favorites via List Management just fine...which is only way that I see to delete a non-existing folder...so how are you trying to do it?

If i select them using right-click, nothing happens.

Where exactly are you trying to right-click on them?

Yes you are right. It works. But how about the question "Delete it from list?" in the message box "Can't find...."?

Best regards

Detlev

[j_c_hallgren]

Maybe I'm having a "senior moment", but when I try to access a deleted folder via menu "Favorites"->"Favorite Folders", I get a Info box with "Couldn't find location xxxxx" that only has an "Ok" choice...so where is this "Delete from list?" thingy?
I'm sure Don knows immediately where, but I'm still

[jacky]

Yes for "unexisting" ones it can only be done through LM.

when I try to access a deleted folder via menu "Favorites"->"Favorite Folders", I get a Info box with "Couldn't find location xxxxx" that only has an "Ok" choice...so where is this "Delete from list?" thingy?

Right, here too. Yet I am sure it used to ask if it should be removed or not! Maybe this behavior changed when the Catalog was added (and/or possibilities extended, ie with name searches, etc). All my Favorites are always there so I couldn't say...

[admin]

Yes you are right. It works. But how about the question "Delete it from list?" in the message box "Can't find...."?

There is no "Delete it from list?" in the current version. What version are you using?

[DetlevH]

Yes you are right. It works. But how about the question "Delete it from list?" in the message box "Can't find...."?

There is no "Delete it from list?" in the current version. What version are you using?

It was just a recommandation for future version.

regards,

Detlev

[admin]

It was just a recommandation for future version.

Ah, I see. Funny, because it has been there in earlier versions but at some point I took it out. The point was XY's portability I think. In a changing environment temporarily dead links are normal., so the question "Delete it from list?" looked a bit stupid.

The idea to mark/strike-through dead items in List Management is cool. Of course, I also could add a button "Remove the dead"...

[j_c_hallgren]

In a changing environment temporarily dead links are normal.
The idea to mark/strike-through dead items in List Management is cool. Of course, I also could add a button "Remove the dead"...

Yes, there are times when "dead" links are not that, but just in a "suspended" state maybe...as folders on a thumb drive that likely isn't always plugged in...but when it is active, they ARE still 'favorites'...so...I'd thus much rather have any missing entries only marked so I could decide to keep or delete them..."Remove dead" would appear to clean up more than I'd want to, in some cases.

Some possible ideas for that 'mark' button label, that I can quickly think of, are: "Mark missing", "Verify entries", "Check existence", "Find obsolete", etc.
The appropriate entries could be flagged via a light colored background, maybe just a pale gray?