On 27 October 2016 at 03:54, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In the end I took your first suggestion and started over. It works. Lost a
lot of settings, etc, but I also lost a lot of experimental stuff that
needed to disappear. All in all, a good solution.
Back in Ye Olden Dayes, I used to save my entire workspace once a
week. Copy/paste the whole thing into a new directory. When I did
something that mucked up my IDE, I'd just point it to last week's copy
and I'd be back on familiar ground again. I used to use a USB hard
drive, in order to keep many weeks of prior workspaces but nowadays, a
USB memory stick may be even easier. That can still work to, er,
'preserve' your settings, filters, etc, but there may be a different
way.
The RDi team have begun implementing a new way to save and restore RDi
settings. I say 'begun' because they've been releasing the
functionality a bit at a time, as they get to it. Which I actually
like, because it means I get something to try out and use, and give
feedback on (via RFE) rather than wait 5 years for the 'full release'
and then find out it doesn't really fit my life style. LOL, Anyway,
the 9.0 version might be too minimal to save all of the things you
find important. Try it, who knows?
File > Export, Rational Developer for i > Configuration Files.
This will take a snapshot of your settings and put that into a file
you can copy to a safe place. Then, if you create a new workspace,
File > Import will let you read that snapshot in, and restore your
settings. It's stuff like connections, filters, that sort of thing.
--buck
midrange.com
