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OB keeps resetting a widget

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I am a heavy and enthusiastic user of ObjectBar. I particular I use it to simulate the old Control Center. I have noticed of late that after a boot one of my widgets has been reset.

I have hard drive meters for all of my partitions, C:, D:, E:, F:, G:, H: and Q:. After a boot OB displays C:, D:; E:, C:, G:, H: and Q: and I can see no difference in the definition of these widgets that should make the drive meter for F: any different from the others. It's always the F: meter that is reset to C:

Any ideas?

BTW, how do I put this topic in my watchlist?
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

BTW, how do I put this topic in my watchlist?
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Go to "tools, Watch Post".
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Make sure you (re)save your bar before you close down next time.
And what kind of drive is F?
Galactic Civilizations III
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Thanks, ilsabav92.

Zubaz: All of my partitions are NTFS, C to H on the first HDD, Q on an external disk. I'll try saving and see what happens.
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Also . . what ver and build of OB?
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I'm curious on a couple aspects..
1. How many physical disks?
2. Why so many partitions?
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I'm curious on a couple aspects..
1. How many physical disks?
2. Why so many partitions?
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Neither item should affect OB.
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
true Zubaz, I'm just curious as to the need to have that many partitions vs folders in todays environments...
Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top
Zubaz: Saving the thing did the trick. Thanks.

Phoon: I guess it has to do with my age. I like to keep as many non-operating system products as possible separate from C:, which I'd like to keep restricted to Windows and its component products. I realize that in today's world, where most products are connected to the Registry, I'm fighting a losing battle, but I still HATE products which don't even give me a choice as to where to install them, and my hatred knows few bounds when a product updates itself by removing the old version from D:, where I had it, and forcing the updated version to C: (That's Nero 8, if anyone's interested)

I have, for many years, divided my HDD into several partitions, based on some kind of function, programs on D:, downloads on E:, program development on F:, graphics on G:, music on H:. If nothing else, at least I have a good chance of finding things reasonably quickly, knowing roughly where they are, or should be.
Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Partitions are good:

Disk 1) (320Gb) WinXP, Vista, XP games, documents -c,d,x,f
Disk 2) (320Gb) Second back-up, documents back-up 2 - g,j
Disk 3) (500Gb) Main back-up, documents back-up 1 - h,i
Disk 4) (250Gb) Games, documents back-up 3, archive - k,m,n

O/S partitions are backed-up using Drive Image 7 (XP) or Acronis True Image (Vista). Documents are backed-up using SyncBackSE.

Having many partitions just makes the whole thing easier   

Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Glad it worked Bob!