[APBeta] Removing catalogs

[Paul Rodman]

Yeh. That's bitten me too. I need to rethink that, or at least warn  
the user that there's a choice involved.

Paul R.

On Apr 2, 2009, at 06:20 PM, Gary A. Ferguson wrote:

> The saga continues....
>
> After about 15 min., the app finally started. I tried deleting  
> catalogs
> again, and stumbled upon the fact that catlogs are like real-estate  
> in at
> least one respect (location, location, location). Because I have  
> multiple
> OS's, I keep my catlogs in a separate, non-AP, directory, and just  
> point all
> installations to that directory. It appears that when you delete a  
> catlog,
> you have to know where it is, and choose that in the "Install in"  
> dropdown
> before attempting the remove. At least, that seemed to work for me.
>
> Gary
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: apbeta-bounces at lists.astroplanner.net
> [mailto:apbeta-bounces at lists.astroplanner.net] On Behalf Of Gary A.  
> Ferguson
> Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 5:52 PM
> To: 'AstroPlanner Beta Testers'
> Subject: Re: [APBeta] Removing catalogs
>
> So, I let it go for about 10 minutes, with nothing happening, and then
> killed the app.
> I then started it with the shift ket held down, which gave me the  
> option to
> backup preferences and reset them, or just reset them. I chose the  
> former.
>
> All I can see is a blank splash screen.  It's chewing up 50% of my
> processor, but I don't know what it's doing.
>
> Gary
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: apbeta-bounces at lists.astroplanner.net
> [mailto:apbeta-bounces at lists.astroplanner.net] On Behalf Of Gary A.  
> Ferguson
> Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 5:35 PM
> To: 'AstroPlanner Beta Testers'
> Subject: [APBeta] Removing catalogs
>
> I'm trying to remove some catalogs from AP v2.0b29. I click the remove
> checkboxes (24 catalogs), then click remove. The app hangs for about 5
> minutes, then refreshes the window. The catalogs are still there!  
> And the
> remove checkboxes are unchecked. I then close the catalog manager,  
> and the
> app is now hung once again.
>
> UPDATE -- just as I finished writing the above, the ap has returned   
> ---
> hmm.. well, sort of. It repainted the main window, but I still can't  
> select
> or do anything.
>
> Gary
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> APBeta mailing list
> APBeta at lists.astroplanner.net
> http://lists.astroplanner.net/listinfo.cgi/apbeta-astroplanner.net
>
> _______________________________________________
> APBeta mailing list
> APBeta at lists.astroplanner.net
> http://lists.astroplanner.net/listinfo.cgi/apbeta-astroplanner.net
>
> _______________________________________________
> APBeta mailing list
> APBeta at lists.astroplanner.net
> http://lists.astroplanner.net/listinfo.cgi/apbeta-astroplanner.net