Re: opening database

Hi,

> How come clicking on a *.odb file in a file explorer (e.g. Dolphin)
> opens directly without much fuss, but starting oobase and then clicking
> on "Open" under "What do you want to do" tells me to go through the long
> "Connect to an existing database" process?  The details I'm asked in the
> latter are already in the file, so I don't understand why I'm asked to
> go through this every time.

The primary purpose of this wizard is to create a new .odb file. If you
want to open an existing one, you can use File/Open, or the "Open"
button in the wizard. If you want to re-open a recently used .odb file,
go to 'File/Recent Documents', or use the "Open an existing ..." option,
together with the drop down list: This list contains the same entries as
the "Recent Documents" sub menu, but the non-database files are stripped.

> The "recently used" list appears to be
> cleared every once in a while (perhaps during upgrades).

As documents vanish from the global "Recent Documents" list, they also
do so from the "recently used" list in the wizard, since the latter list
is a subset of the former.

Ciao
Frank

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