My Preferences are gone

[Roeland]

Hi Marco,

This morning i started PL\SQL Developer 2 times short after each other. No big deal i thought, because in the first instance everything was working correctly. After i closed this instance i noticed that the second instance had no fixed logons... All my preferences were gone. I restarted PL\SQL Developer and even the whole computer but i couldn't get my preferences back.

Situation:
When i open the preferences i got 2 times
"System Default". One in blue and one in red. My colleagues have there name in blue.

In the preferences directory there is a folder with my name though, and it was not changed since a few days.

So there is maybe a registry setting? How can i solve this? I liked my preferences and my history list.

 

[Marco Kalter]

Can you go to the PL/SQL Developer installation directory and zip the Preferences directory and its subdirectories, and send it to me?

 

[Bernd Ludewig]

I have the same problem.
There is a prefs file that still contains my settings but those won't be read by the program anymore.

Can you please help me to correct it?

 

[Marco Kalter]

On the windows command prompt, you can type:

C:\>cd %APPDATA%\"PLSQL Developer"

Can you let me know if a Preferences subdirectory exists here? If it does, can you rename it to Preferences.x and try again?

 

[adriansi]

Hello,

I had the same problem also. Try yo edit params.ini and set prefpath to full path of your preferences directory.
On my computer i had:
# Specify the path for the personal preference sets.
#
prefpath=C:\Program Files\PLSQL\Developer\Preferences\

Regards, Adrian

 

[Bernd Ludewig]

The appdata environment parameter is set to a complete different directory. It is set to APPDATA=C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\ztluw\Anwendungsdaten. (ztluw is my account name). Such a directory does not even exist.
After changing the prefpath in params.ini I got my settings back.

But now I have still a question: Why and how has it worked before? And what went wrong? I have never made any settings in params.ini!