I will give this a try over the week-end and let you know how things are
going.
Cheers,
Conrad
"MW Ron" <mwron@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:mwron-BFF46D.15193921092004@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> In article <KjC2d.9971$g%5.120651@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> "Conrad Weyns" <weyns@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>Ok Ron, this helped, thanks!
>>But I must say it is delicate.
>
> It should not be, if it is we need to fix it.
>
>>If, after adding a large number of files to a project, the IDE's File
tab
>>shows duplicate entries due to include paths screw up, the project file
>>has
>>essentially become useless. Even after removing every single file - yes,
>>every file, thus essentially ending up with what should be an empty
>>project - after a reload, it still comes up with thousands of recovered
>>files! The IDE displays at times an alert as to how "dangerous" it to
have
>>duplicate entries. Well, ok to give me a warning, but what good is that
if
>>I
>>cannot ever clean it up. My gutt feeling is that the IDE is doing a very
>>bad
>>job of keeping it's .mcp file up to date when a lot of add/remove/add
>>operations are going on.
>
> My gut feeling is that the global preferences are totally corrupted and
> you need to not only delete the data folder but also trash the Global
> preferences in the user/NAME/library/Preferences.
>
> I don't think we find this common any more. It used to be a common
> problem with recovered files but we put a lot of effort to eradicate all
> the erroneous causes of this happening.
>
>>I have now arrived at the following way to create (what I consider) a
>>large
>>project:
>>I continually make a copy of the .mcp project file after carefully
adding
>>one directory of files at a time and making sure that include paths are
>>correct for all targets. This way, I have a means of "rolling back".
>
> Backups are always good, but again this should not be happening at all.
> I fear that the preferences are corrupted.
>
>>By the way, it would help I think, if the .mcp file format was humanly
>>editable like ms's .vproj files have become. They use xml, and a good
xml
>>editor like for instance editix from editix.com can be a great asset
when
>>having to make many changes to the settings of a large
workspace/solution.
>>Yet another wish.. :-)
>
> CW 10 is to have a Text Based Project format so you don't have to ex****t
> to XML and back in again.
>
> Ron
>
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