Disappearing Palettes

[Karen Robbins]

Thanks, Stuart, now I remember Workspaces--and even a fairly recent 
discussion about the .fws and .cfws files--but couldn't put them 
together. I will set this up and hope I don't have to use it often. 
:-)

Typically, running Windows under Parallels is no different, it's just 
more challenging for us Mac folks to figure out where stuff is (and 
why it doesn't work like a Mac).

--Karen

At 12:00 PM -0500 4/24/12, Stuart Rogers wrote:

>Karen,
>
>FM keeps track of your open palettes etc. in Workspace files with the
>extension .fws or .cfws.  It sounds like something got fried in
>whichever .cfws file you last used.
>
>The best way to restore your palettes is to set up the interface the way
>you like it and then save it as a custom workspace.  Then when things go
>haywire (or you've just managed to move everything around for various
>reasons), you can choose Reset from the workspace menu and everything
>will be restored.  (Assuming the .cfws file is OK.)
>
>(The .fws and .cfws files are in the WorkSpaces folder within fminit;
>you may find more than one instance of the fminit folder; I'm not sure
>how Parallels, Macs, etc. work this out.)
>
>HTH,
>
>--
>Stuart Rogers

>On 23/04/2012 3:04 PM, Karen Robbins wrote:
>  > Hello Framers,
>>
>>  I use Frame 9 (9.0p255) in Windows 7 via Parallels 6 on a Mac. I keep
>>  many palettes on-screen in one or two floating blocks.
>>
>>  This morning I opened an existing Frame document and all palettes were
>>  missing. Multiple attempts at opening a palette with a menu item (such
>>  as Format>Character>Designer) or key combo (such as CTRL+D) also failed.
>  >
>>  After several tries and restarts (both Windows and Frame), clicking
>>  through the menus did begin to reveal some of the palettes. I am not
>  > sure if all are directly accessible from menus.
>>
>>  What might cause this to happen? Is the best way (only way?) to restore
>>  disappearing palettes simply to call all of them from menus again?
>>
>>  thanks,
>  > Karen