OK - so deleting the tabs from my Windows Startup file and changing Chrome's startup setting to 'Continue where you left off' HAS preserved the close-down tabs on restarting - COMPLETE with their coloured groupings, BUT the Bookmark bar and Group Selector remain empty! So, thanks both for your help - I now have a workable process, and I'll continue to try to refine it.
You've confirmed what pelaird said about Groupy 2. And what I have learned about the known fragility of Chrome's tab groups. I may have another go with Tab Session Manager (and its Save Tab Groups add-on). Incidentally, I've just noticed that after reopening (#9), the tabs which I had grouped before closing (#8 above), DO appear WITH THEIR GROUP COLOUR in the Recently Closed drop-down! Clicking opens a duplicate tab WITHIN ITS GROUP, but does not reinstate the group icons in t
Here it is:
As you can see above, the groups do set up properly. and the Group Selector does show each group ( what did you mean by 'saved'?). However, when I close the browser window and reopen it (or reboot), all the groups have vanished and the Group Selector is empty. I'll do that after sending this messa
Thanks pelaird - I suspected that might be the case with Groupy. As it was my only regular use of tabs, I just assumed that Groupy would do the job, but clearly I've misunderstood. I can open and manipulate tab groups in Chrome's own group function (but thanks for the guide) - however, my failed objective is to make them PERSIST over both Chrome window closure and overnight PC re-boot. As I choose to start each day with all these tabs on my screen, I really don't fanc
Exactly.
Within one window.
I am trying to use Groupy 2 to provide for PERMANENT sub-grouping (into 4 groups) of a dozen Chrome tabs which automatically open in one window when I start the Windows 11 PC daily. I appreciate that Chrome itself theoretically offers such grouping, but I was unable to make it work properly by retaining the settings overnight. There seems to be much comment that this function is defective. So I hoped that instead I could achieve the desired outcome with Groupy 2, but I can't f
Thanks Basj Since putting all the icons into their fences again, I seem to have the same number as in the desktop folder - so problem resolved. Happy New Year (again)
Thanks Basj I'm very glad you could reproduce this behaviour - and suggest solutions. I can confirm that both your proposals work for me too, which is reassuring. However, I think exclusion from auto-grouping is the better conclusion for me. Thanks again - and a Happy New Year. John Edwards
Every time I CLOSE a Write tab in Thunderbird Mail, I get a persistent white square (2.5 inches on my large screen - see image below) which sits above everything else (although the cursor recognises what is hidden underneath). If I move the Mail window around the screen the square remains fixed in screen position. Several closures bring on several squares. The only solution is to reboot the PC - closing Mail doesn't work. <img src="https://user-media-prod-cdn.itsre-sumo.mozilla.net/up
In the absence of anything useful, I've spent the time to manually move all the icons - but I now realise that I only have about 50-75% of the number I had!
I don't think I understand the relevance of this. I couldn't invent rules that would define where my icons should be.
Is that the final answer? Rules won't help as the fences are subject-based and require manual placement. So I'm condemned to moving them all myself?
Thanks Basj, a good thought. I DID have new items set up as you described, and now I have disabled that and restored the pre-Win 11 snapshot - there is no difference! Did you mean that I should also re-boot, or purge and install again? John
After successfully upgrading to Windows 11 Home (22H2), I found that the VAST majority (but not all) of my many icons had disappeared from their previous fences and I eventually discovered that they seem to have appeared (and significantly overflowed) in my NEW ITEMS fence. I don't see this as a reported problem here. I have tried purging and reinstalling (having seen all/most of my icons unsorted onscreen in the process) but when I 'Apply snapshot' of my previous arrangement, I get t
[quote who="sdRohan" reply="56" id="3813962"] They can but if they are not showing in the UI, as you said they are not, something about them is corrupt. [/quote]Could it be the format of the file name? It is: 6e8448bd-8b0f-4777-ab5b-4d5c27c985a5 followed by .png and .xml Perhaps there are parameters for the name which this doesn't meet?
[quote who="sdRohan" reply="54" id="3813955"] If you create a new one now, does it then show in the Fences UI? [/quote]Yes it does. So if another one is stored in the Backups folder, why can't it be restored? Unless it can, backups seem to have no purpose!
[quote who="sdRohan" reply="52" id="3813949"] Would one of the prior 'Daily' snapshots suffice? [/quote]No - due to the time delay around the bodged upgrade, none of them are at all relevant.
[quote who="basj" reply="48" id="3813905"] This guide might help you on restoring it : https://forums.stardock.com/486084/fences-support-faq#backupsnapshots Thank you, Basj, Stardock Community Assistant [/quote]I'm afraid that these FAQs do not address the issue I raised in Reply#47.
[quote who="johnedwards1" reply="46" id="3813891"] However, I still can't access my previous Fences as none of the Layout snapshots (shown under Layout & snapping) reflect them. Can anyone point me to the folder in which I would find the layout snapshots stored - in case others can be found there (perhaps in system backups)? [/quote]Having searched my PC, I've found a Backups folder in C:/Users/NAME/AppData/Roaming/Stardock/Fences and It does contain an old backup which would su
[quote who="johnedwards1" reply="17" id="3813496"] Me too - I still can't uninstall 3.0.9.11, probably due to corruption of the uninstall folder/files. I posted full screenshots in the main thread re 3.10 Issue Reports. Purging doesn't work, as some of the cmd lines produce errors. HELP! [/quote]I'm pleased to say following the advice by @FiatLux_DK (Reply #152 in Fences 3.10 Report Thread) to reinstall Fences under Safe Mode WORKED! In fact, I've now installed v3.1.2 suc
[quote who="mhguda" reply="10" id="3813467"] I'm still getting this message: [/quote] Me too - I still can't uninstall 3.0.9.11, probably due to corruption of the uninstall folder/files. I posted full screenshots in the main thread re 3.10 Issue Reports. Purging doesn't work, as some of the cmd lines produce errors. HELP!
[quote who="basj" reply="6" id="3812987"] Well, you said the earliest. Shouldn't you look for the latest one? Anyway, if it not available, than you will need to rebuild it manually. And make a habit to save snapshot after you have done any new layout and give it a name. That will be permanently save for you and will not be over written by the auto save daily layout snapshot. Thank you, Basj, Stardock Community Assistant [/quote] Thanks Basj <p
[quote who="AzDude" reply="151" id="3813015"] Hello, Would you do this PURGE: https://forums.stardock.com/486084/fences-support-faq#reinstalling Reboot and ReInstall the version 3.0.9 from, your account https://store.stardock.com/myaccount/products/ Reboot test and report back please . Should be