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#603866 06/26/20 04:51 AM
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Hi folks

I have a lot of styles on my BIAB installation.

Is there an way to delete individual styles that I'm not likely to use?

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I think I would copy them to another folder. BIAB only looks for styles in the styles folder, so your 'deleted' styles would not be found. However, PGMusic could update the styles, in which case you might get an error if the style was missing, or the style might get 're-added' to the folder.

Don't forget to do a rebuild after you remove the unwanted styles


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My question would be why?
They take up very little space.
Is it simply because the list is too long? Filters can help with that.


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I kind of agree. Can you just use filters to select the ones you're interested in? I suspect there will be ongoing manual maintenance tasks if styles are manually removed.


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Originally Posted By: VideoTrack
... ongoing manual maintenance...
I think that may be right; each update may put them back.


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Thanks for all responses and for the workaround suggestions.

It looks like there's no way to do this from within BIAB.

As Stylepicker is a database front-end, I would have expected that functionality.

Thanks again everyone.

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Originally Posted By: Bluehorizon

It looks like there's no way to do this from within BIAB.

As Stylepicker is a database front-end, I would have expected that functionality.

I think the functionality is actually there. There are numerous filters than can be applied, including creating your own Favorites list and then simply selecting from that list:

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Thanks, that's a good way to approach working with selected styles.

An alternative would be set up custom user categories so that you can have different user categories for different projects.

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Well, i must confess that a lot of styles (got about 1700) i'd never use (anymore?).
Maybe the stylepicker can be updated and get some function added ...
Less liked styles folder to park them in? Just to make searches less time consuming finding something useful.

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