Flare is opening files from another project automatically

[SDWriterClmt]

Just noticed some odd behavior with Flare 2018 today. At least I have not seen it before. I was working on, let's call it Project A earlier this afternoon. Then I closed Flare, launched it again and selected to open Project B. Project B opened along with some of its files I had open the last time I was in there. But it also opened a bunch of files from Project A! I believe they are all of the files I had open when I closed Project A.

Flare displays a message atop each outside file opened in the Project B. Why would Flare suddenly be opening these outside files? BTW, this behavior repeats. I've closed and opened Project B three times and it does this each time.

Flare_opening_outside_files_message.png

The image below indicates the outside files.

Flare_opening_outside_files.png

[ChoccieMuffin]

Not seen that before, but what a lot of people do when Flare is misbehaving is close the project and delete the Output and Analyzer folders. That often solves a lot of problems and I suspect the Analyzer folder has got confused.

[SDWriterClmt]

Thanks! Didn't get a response right away and then just forgot about this thread. Thanks for replying. Keeps happening but only with one of the project's I'm working with.

So it's okay to blow away the Output and Analyzer folders. I wasn't sure about that. I will try it.

EDIT: BTW, did you mean blow those folders way in both my projects, or just the one having the issue?

[ChoccieMuffin]

It doesn't really matter. The Output folder is regenerated when you do a build, and the Analyzer folder is regenerated when you open the project.

If you find it keeps happening in one single project there may be other things going on, perhaps some external links in there somewhere. That can happen if you've copied a topic from Project A into Project B and the topic you're copying includes a cross-ref or inserted image. It sometimes happens that the link to the other file includes an absolute path rather than a relative path. To fix it, you should reapply the cross-ref or re-add the image referencing the files within your project, or if you're happy playing with the code, edit the code in the text editor.

Hope that gives you a bit of a pointer to what might be causing the problem.

[SDWriterClmt]

Thank you. I will try deleted those directories.

FWIW, I think the one file I brought over from the older project to this new one---the one that's having this strange issue---is the .css stylesheet. I wanted the new project to have the same look. At least for now.

[ChoccieMuffin]

If you copy the stylesheet OUTSIDE of Flare, i.e. in Windows Explorer, that might help. Longer term, if you want to keep all (or both) of your projects using the same stylesheet for consistency, take a good look at Global Project Linking, or GPL. There are lots of threads about it on the forums and a good bit about it in the Help. VERY well worth investigating to help with single-sourcing.

[SDWriterClmt]

Hello again. I think that trick of deleting Analyzer and Output in both projects worked. I did this, and then the next time I opened the problematical project, no outside topics opened with it.

Thanks!

[ChoccieMuffin]

Glad it worked. If you get ANY peculiar behaviour, try that trick first - it fixes a lot of problems.