Resolve sometimes reopens the wrong project upon launch

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Resolve sometimes reopens the wrong project upon launch

PostWed Mar 01, 2023 8:50 pm

18.1.3

Lately I've been seeing that, if I have fast switching and Reload last working project on startup enabled, the second-most-recent rather than most recent project will be loaded after restarting Resolve. This has happened quite a few times now so I'm sure it's not pilot error.

Has anyone else noticed this?
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Re: Resolve sometimes reopens the wrong project upon launch

PostThu Mar 02, 2023 2:17 am

Really not a fan of Resolve opening a project on it's own, so....there's that.
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Re: Resolve sometimes reopens the wrong project upon launch

PostThu Mar 02, 2023 4:53 am

Jim Simon wrote:Really not a fan of Resolve opening a project on it's own, so....there's that.

Yeah, that makes me nervous as well. There's always the slim possibility of running into a corrupted project, and now if Resolve wants to open the LAST project opened, it'll grab the corrupted one instead of just presenting you with the Project Manager window.
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Re: Resolve sometimes reopens the wrong project upon launch

PostThu May 04, 2023 10:19 pm

I get that you guys don't like the feature. Still - the feature should work correctly.

This still happens on 18.5B2.
Fast project switching on
"Reload last working project on start up" on (PS why is this in UI Settings rather than Project Save and Load?)

sometimes the second-most-recently-opened project rather than the most recently opened project is opened when starting Resolve.
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Re: Resolve sometimes reopens the wrong project upon launch

PostThu May 04, 2023 10:56 pm

Was that 'most recent' opened as a second project while another was already open?
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Re: Resolve sometimes reopens the wrong project upon launch

PostFri May 05, 2023 12:28 am

I opened one project, then a second, then went back to the original, then quit.
Restarting results in the "middle" project opening.
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Re: Resolve sometimes reopens the wrong project upon launch

PostFri May 05, 2023 4:33 am

if you go back to a project and make no change, maybe we are not seeing that as current, compared to one you have changed.
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Re: Resolve sometimes reopens the wrong project upon launch

PostFri May 05, 2023 5:34 am

That could be. Hopefully that much is an easy fix! :)
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Re: Resolve sometimes reopens the wrong project upon launch

PostWed May 17, 2023 5:34 pm

Peter Chamberlain wrote:if you go back to a project and make no change, maybe we are not seeing that as current, compared to one you have changed.

Nope that's not it. Was editing for an hour, restarted Resolve, and the wrong project was reopened.
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Re: Resolve sometimes reopens the wrong project upon launch

PostMon May 22, 2023 2:53 am

Um, please post logs when you see this again.
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Re: Resolve sometimes reopens the wrong project upon launch

PostMon May 22, 2023 6:13 pm

Will do!
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Re: Resolve sometimes reopens the wrong project upon launch

PostMon Jun 05, 2023 4:56 pm

Here are logfiles from when the wrong project opened upon relaunch.
Should have been "shift+cmd+drag strange movement" but was "anamnesis joe edit"

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-oAzKs ... sp=sharing
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