Re: Losing a Perspective

Hi Doug.
I'm still on WDSCi 7.0, but I have that happen every few months -- sometimes because I crash the SEP debugger, sometimes because of poltergeists. The remedy I've become familiar with is to grab a copy of the .metadata folder my last back-up of the c-drive and replace the one in my workbench that got trashed. You will find yours located differently, but mine is in
C:\Users\mkoester\.eclipse\RSE\WDSCmk1\.metadata where WDSCmk1 is my active workbench.
That brings me back to the way my environment looked at the time of that save, which won't include any filters or other customizations I made since, and the source members I may have had open in the saved copy will be showing in LPEX instead of those I had open when I lost it. But at least I am in familiar territory at that point. Oh, and I've become better at saving a copy of that .metadata folder more frequently.
Enjoy.
-- Michael

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Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Losing a Perspective

This happens to me when I accidentally change workspaces. If you just
created the customized perspective, it may also be that you didn't save
the customized perspective.

As an aside, I like the "Losing Perspective" pun.

From: "Englander, Douglas" <Douglas_Englander@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 10/30/2013 09:25 AM
Subject: [WDSCI-L] Losing a Perspective
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I am on RDi V9.0 with no service packs installed.

Last night, I closed out of RDi as I normally do, and there were no
problems. This morning when I bring up RDI, my normal perspective was
not brought up; the default perspective was brought up. In addition,
when I tried to open my customized perspective, it does not appear on
the list.
Any idea how this could have happened? How does a perspective vanish?

I also have RDi 8.5 on my PC. I started that up this morning, and my
normal perspective appeared, as expected.

Has anyone had similar problems?

Thank you,

Doug