Re: changes to Group Settings ignored

Jim Nagel  wrote on Feb 13:

> I have repeatedly made changes in the "Edit group settings" dialogue*
> and saved them.  But next time I log on, the settings are back to the
> old ones.  What's wrong? ( * This is the dialogue you get at from menu
> or Shift-E over an open MPro folder window.)

> MPro here is 7.08 (2015 feb, seems to be latest one on Plingstore)
> running on the ArmX6 here (Ro 5.23 with R-Comp's OS8). ...

> (1) My wife has too many items in her Main Groups list.  To avoid
> having to scroll the list, I used "Edit group settings" to mark some
> as an "archive group" (via tickbox in the General section), and click
> Save.  They duly move to her "Archive groups" list.  But when we log
> on the next day, they're all back in Main Groups.

Solved part (1) of my post of Feb 13.  In fact, the solution came 
(after a further try and further frustration) by checking this list 
from 2010 Nov, when someone called Nagel asked the very same Q.

As I discovered in 2010 and then forgot, a group which has been given 
a COLOUR in the list of groups cannot be archived; you have to remove 
the colour first.  Change the colour back to black, then tick the 
Archive box (which can be done in the same dialogue), then click Save.  
Then all is happy.
    Methinks this could be called a bug in MPro.  In 2010 it was MPro 
version 5.13; still same behaviour now in 7.08.


Problem (2) remains a mystery:  why does a choice of "Display Unread" 
refuse to be changed back to "Display All"?

-- 
Jim Nagel                        www.archivemag.co.uk
|| See you at the show?   www.wakefieldshow.org.uk   April 22

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