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I use Oxygen on six or seven projects on any given day, and a total of about fifteen or sixteen projects at any one time. I usually have five or six copies of the app open on different desktops (Linux, Ubuntu). Until now, the Project / Reopen Project menu has done a good job of keeping track of all the projects I work on; I used to be able to find any project I had worked on in the last few months on that menu when I needed it. But when I upgraded to 27.0, that menu was wiped clean; since then, it only ever seems to keep six or so project on it, and even a project I worked on the day before will not appear on the menu when I need it. Has there been a change to the way this menu is handled? Is there a way I can make it behave as it used to?

Cheers,
Martin

Hello Martin,

I tested this morning but did not reproduce the reported problem.
I attached an image with a project history consisting of 8 project URLs used by me for testing.
I used even more initially, but some were CORRECTLY removed from the history list when I tested the situations where they really needed to be deleted from the list.


Then I checked the code responsible for adding/deleting projects in the history.
I noticed that there were no recent changes in the code in question.
I also noticed that there is a limit regarding the number of project URLs saved in the history, but this is set to 20.

The method responsible for deleting project URLs from the history is called only in 2 situations:
- when invoking the 'Clear history' action
- when trying to reopen a project that is no longer on disk at its original location (the location saved in the history when the project was first opened in the application).

I can't figure out what exactly is causing the unwanted behavior on your machine.
Anyway, I will continue testing in the coming days, maybe I will eventually discover something that could affect working with project history.

Best regards,
Teo

Thanks Teo. When you test, are you opening multiple instances of Oxygen at the same time? That's the way I usually work, and I think that may have something to do with it. When I close the final instance at the end of the day, it's as though all of the previous instances I ran with different projects open are removed from the list; so I wonder if any given instance of Oxygen just keeps the list of projects it read on startup, and then adds the latest one (if it's new), but doesn't notice that other instances have loaded other projects and closed down in the meantime.

If that's the problem, then maybe I can work around it by opening a single instance, then progressively loading each of my projects and closing/restarting Oxygen, until they're all back in the list again.