Using DT Pro Office Beta.
Turned it on this AM, and most of the drop-down menu items are greyed out. From the git-go.
With a document selected in the list, or opened, can’t:
duplicate
replicate
cut
paste
delete
show in finder
highlight
show details
zoom
Just a short list of what’s unavailable.
Any ideas?
Hmm. Many of those commands are contextual. So, for example in the Edit menu a document that’s been opened in its own window but has no selected text will have such items as cut or delete grayed out. But if you select something, Cut and Delete will become available commands. And under the Data menu items most of the commands would normally be grayed out, including Duplicate, Replicate and others.
But if that document is selected in the Names column, other commands should appear, such as Delete, Duplicate, Replicate. Show in Finder would be grayed out unless the item were Index captured. And of course Cut would be grayed out unless a selection had been made.
In fact, if the focus isn’t on the document window in the Three Panes view, almost all the Edit commands are grayed out, including Paste.
So the normal operation of available commands under the Edit and Data menus will vary depending on whether the document is being viewed in the text pane of a view window (and also whether the focus is in that pane), or the document has been opened in its own window. Under the Edit menu commands will vary depending on whether or not a selection has been made.
That said, if you click on the Name of a document in Vertical Split, Horizontal Split or Three Panes views, the Data menu should allow you to Duplicate, Replicate or Delete it, for example.
If that’s not the case, something is wrong. Try the obvious first. Quit and relaunch DT Pro, or even better restart your computer to sweep out any cobwebs in memory.
Still got a problem?
Yup. But with a new wrinkle (more below). I have an image of it but dont know how to upload here.
Situation:
file selected in vertical pane
document visible on right
Under EDIT MENU, no:
Undo
Redo
Cut
Paste
Paste with Current Style
Delete
Complete
Summarize
Ditto if I select a group of files.
THE NEW WRINKLE:
If I click on File Name in the vertical pane list, and it prepares itself to be renamed, everything under the EDIT MENU comes back.
Go figure.
Now … I’m using an 800 Mhz laptop with 1 GB of RAM while my other laptop is getting fixed. Could I simply not have enough juice?
Send to Support an email with that picture and the URL of this thread.
How much free hard drive space and how much free RAM do you have when this happens? (You can check with Activity Monitor.)
I sent it off with the images and a jpg of System Memory.