I store the vast majority of my songs in a dedicated directory designated as my home directory but there are some I am saving in a different location.
I tried using the Open Favorites Folder (alt-shift-f) command which brings up a list. The problem is that the folder locations in that list are old and most of them I don't need to see anymore. Is there a text file that can be modified using a text editor such as Notepad or Notepad++ ?
I tried searching and looking a most of the *.txt files in the BB directory but could not find anything. I want to clean up the list to get rid of most of the entries.
See screenshot.
Thanks
jcland
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If you select the Open Special > Open Favorite Songs, does the item appear there at all? If so, there is a Delete button option available that may work?
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Audio Track: I think you misunderstood my question. I was talking about "Open Favorite Folder", not "Open Favorite Song". I want to clean up the folder list that shows up in the popup window.
If you open the Favorite Folder using the shortcut Alt-Shift-F, you do not have the option of doing anything except pick one of your last used folders. If you use the command Open Special > Favorite Folders, you get an different popup screen, which also does not let you delete anything but it does give you a couple of more buttons, none of them which gives you the option of editing the list.
See both graphics.
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Hi, I did follow what you were trying to achieve, but when the Favorites Folder didn't have any edit option available, I wondered if it might be listed in the Favorite Songs dialog instead.
I'lll keep trying ideas....
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Following. I recall looking for this a few years ago and not finding a way to edit it. Perhaps this is headed for the Wishlist unless someone else know how to do it.
In most software, I would expect to be able to set my preferred folder in Preferences. Before 2018, and the reorganization of folders in BIAB, this was even more perplexing.
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After a fair amount of searching, it's stored internally in the file x:\dd\preferences\F32I.BIN
You could rename that file, but you will lose all of your favorite songs as well, including Favorites and Recently Played.
It's a binary file (not editable with usual tools).
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The string also appears in Intrface.bbw, but that might only be a reference to a recently opened location.
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Armed with that information, all I needed to do was to rename the file so BIAB could recreate a new list that only showed the root directory. I then went to File>Open from the menu and then chose the directory that I wanted to be on the Favorite Folder list and that fixed the problem. As long as I don't open another SGU or MGU file from another directory, the list will stay clean as you can see from the new graphic.
I will mark as Resolved since there is no easy way to edit the binary file, unless someone else has a better solution.
Thanks.
jcland
BIAB2026 Windows 10 Pro (Never Windows 11!) WA6NCB
Excellent. I'm glad that worked out for you. Thanks for marking it as resolved.
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I will mark as Resolved since there is no easy way to edit the binary file, unless someone else has a better solution.
jcland
This could help: https://www.heise.de/download/products/systemsoftware/dateimanager/hex-editor#?cat=systemsoftware%2Fdateimanager&catf=systemsoftware%2Fdateimanager%2Fhex-editor
Uwe, yes, an idea for a solution, however, without knowing the exact content of the fie (headers, data length, CRC checksums and more), it would be easy to corrupt the file content by simply editing out the necessary ASCII data fields.
Using a Hex Editor would not be my recommendation.
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A further thought would be for PG Music to incorporate the necessary tools into the program to edit/remove unwanted folders from the favorites dialog.
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Looks like ChatPG is wrong. I just tried it on my Windows version and right-clicking does absolutely nothing. The easy fix is what i did, just either rename or delete the binary file and let BIAB make a new one.
Originally Posted by Mark Hayes
According to ChatPG, you can remove a favorite folder by right-clicking on it and selecting that option from the contextual menu.
I cannot, however, get this to work on MacOS and don't have the Windows version.
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I just use the Windows Explorer open dialog to create favorites, I just have a folder "A Locations" pinned to the top that contains shortcuts to different folders.
According to ChatPG, you can remove a favorite folder by right-clicking on it and selecting that option from the contextual menu.
I cannot, however, get this to work on MacOS and don't have the Windows version.
ChatPG appears to be incorrect. There is no context menu available on the Windows version either.
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